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"Europeans never actually colonized anything but America." The British colonized India, Australia, Hong Kong, and half the Middle East. France held Indochina, A
by Tostino 8mo ago
"Europeans never actually colonized anything but America." The British colonized India, Australia, Hong Kong, and half the Middle East. France held Indochina, Algeria, and most of West Africa. The Dutch ran Indonesia for 350 years. Belgium's Congo is one of the most documented atrocities in modern history. Portugal colonized Mozambique, Angola, Goa, and Macau.
The Scramble for Africa carved up nearly the entire continent among European states at the Berlin Conference of 1884. That's not obscure history. You can make your point about Iran without pretending none of this happened.
- spwa4 8mo agoIf you look up history more accurately you'll find this isn't true. Or at least, it's not the whole story. Europeans took over India from muslim conquerors. Same with most of the places you mention. European colonization is the reason slavery stopped in those places. Hong Kong never had slaves, and if you talk with people now they'll be pretty unanimous in that Hong Kong, the colony, was a better place than it is now. That was what muslims did in Africa, btw, better known as "black gold". Meaning for a millenium all muslim economies were 100% built on exploitation of slaves. And three guesses why it was called "black" gold ... Oh and it wasn't one state. Muslims massacred their own empires out of existence every 2 centuries or so. But every empire they had was built on slavery. The first ("the propet" was a slaver and a slavetrader. In case you don't know: slaver means he invaded villages and killed people until the rest accepted to become slaves), the last, and every one in between. Oh and a question: What is Hong Kong now? Because it isn't free. And yet, somehow, it's not called a Chinese colony? Why not? That's what it is, and it's worse than it was as a British colony.