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As a previously commentator mentioned, "colonized" is a much more fitting word than "discovery." The deeper problem, I think, with "discovery" is that it obscur
by bshepard 9y ago
As a previously commentator mentioned, "colonized" is a much more fitting word than "discovery." The deeper problem, I think, with "discovery" is that it obscures the violence of the European settlement process -- the meta-genocides of the North American peoples and the transatlantic Slave Trade.
- olavk 9y agoThe discovery of America by Europeans is not the same as the colonization and settlement, although the discovery led to colonization. They are not synonyms.