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> A lot of this, I think, is the result of geography rather than the Finns (or rather, their leaders) being different / special. Romania never participated in t
by prepend 5y ago
> A lot of this, I think, is the result of geography rather than the Finns (or rather, their leaders) being different / special.
Romania never participated in the colonial era as well but it's not they wouldn't have liked to.
Doesn’t this apply to everywhere though. I’m sure every country would have loved to colonize places but didn’t for various reasons.
I don’t think there are “evil” countries that colonized because they are evil. All countries that could, did.
Fortunately, recently people became more moral and have worked to limit this. Although cynically, I think it’s because the less evil way is no more lucrative.
- badpun 5y agoPoland wasn’t into colonizing. The country wasn’t overpopulated yet and the elites were very rich from grain exports anyway, so why bother competing with other European powers for the New World?
- hef19898 5y agoPoland as a nation didn't exist until the end of WW1. Difficult to colonize when you don't exist as a nation.
- badpun 5y agoI’m speaking about Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which existed during the first stages of colonisation, and in which Poland played the dominant role.
- prepend 5y agoSame reason why Germany didn’t colonize much, they didn’t exist.