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Ok, but I wouldn't count population size as a cultural property. Not sure I'd count technology (weapons) either - it's maybe a long-term cultural property. And

• oblio 5y ago
  The thing is, the biggest thing, money, was never redistributed. The initial land was taken over by Europeans, by force, then the Westward expansion was also by force and the land was given to Europeans. After WW2 there were huge investments into infrastructure and housing and those were given to... Europeans. Kind of hard to catch up with people who have everything. You need to be exceptional and large groups of people aren't really exceptional. Most people just stay where they are (geographically and socially).
  • Chris2048 5y ago
    > initial land was taken over by Europeans Can you clarify what you mean by this. Racial Europeans? Does that include the mass immigration of Irish? Or are you talking about the British and other colonial powers? > Kind of hard to catch up with people who have everything What people? Europeans? There are plenty of poor whites, and plenty wealthy immigrants who "started with nothing". Also, it appears the context of this post is wrt to someone who might be Asian - how did those non-European immigrants end up on the wrong side of this? Seems that that group managed to catch up, and are now being penalised for it.