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always eye-rolling when people degrade discussion by throwing people into few simplistic categories which don't represent reality (ie there are tons of western
by saiya-jin 4y ago
always eye-rolling when people degrade discussion by throwing people into few simplistic categories which don't represent reality (ie there are tons of western countries these days, only few participated in colonization, slavery etc. and muslim ones participated during that time too)
- nivertech 4y agoThese are the only Western European countries which didn't participated in colonization/empire building: Vatican* (questionable) Malta (but not Sovereign Military Order of Malta) Monaco San Marino Andorra Liechtenstein Luxembourg Switzerland Ireland** (only after independence from UK) Under some classifications Scandinavia is also counts as Western Europe, and even there Denmark-Norway colonized Iceland and Greenland, and Sweden expanded its empire into Finland, Baltics and Northern Russia.