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And you forget that your "first world" was built on slaves, colonies, cleansing of ethnic races who were living there originally? Mostly that is where the "high
by nebula 13y ago
And you forget that your "first world" was built on slaves, colonies, cleansing of ethnic races who were living there originally? Mostly that is where the "higher median standard of living" that you refer to has its foundations, that was the launchpad. So, yes, to you your world looks equitable.
- stinkytaco 13y agoFair enough, but the third world was built on the same things. It's not as if the Asians didn't commit genocides or Africans didn't sell other Africans into slavery and Native Americans didn't wage brutal war on each other. I don't need a white man's guilt when there's plenty of guilt to go around. History is what it is, I don't hope to recreate it but I wouldn't be able to change it even if I had a time machine. Fact remains that even if the world isn't always better off today than it was yesterday, it's generally better off than it was 100 years ago.