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We don't call what the Huns, Aztec, Chinese or Zulu did "colonialism" because it doesn't help the narrative. Notice how, in particular, there are plenty of peop
by makomk 6y ago
We don't call what the Huns, Aztec, Chinese or Zulu did "colonialism" because it doesn't help the narrative. Notice how, in particular, there are plenty of people willing to call what happened to Ireland colonialism even though it involved solely neighbours and even though every single faction arrived there via England originally.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoIreland is probably better framed as (mostly) entrenched religious discrimination and subjugation on that basis (for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Laws)
- randompwd 6y ago> even though every single faction arrived there via England originally The vikings & other nordics who bled in to early irish bloodlines didn't arrive via england.
- discreteevent 6y agoAlso a large genetic component of the Irish population is shared with people in the Iberian peninsula.
- Veen 6y agoYes, but the Iberian migration was just an earlier example of a long history of migrations and colonizations going back millennia. There was a time when the British Isles weren't populated by Homo Sapiens, and migrating people's found the lands empty (except for the occasional band of Neanderthals), but it's deep in pre-history and since then migration has almost always involved some level of population replacement and/or subjugation by new elites.