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>Never should have given up the island in the first place. They should never have colonized it in the first place.
by La1n 6y ago
>Never should have given up the island in the first place.
They should never have colonized it in the first place.
- tasubotadas 6y agoWhy? HKers are better off now because of that and probably the UK is now better off as well.
- La1n 6y agoMaybe there are better off now, but for a long time people lived under segregation and were discriminated against, the majority population had no say in any of the politics for a long time. Erasure of culture and language of the natives. Import of opium, an addictive drug, with war being fought over being able to keep selling it. Colonialism has a giant impact on a people. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348771 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348771 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth