Quote (ofthevoid @ May 31 2018 10:19am)
lel applying derivatives to the oppression Olympics, well done m8
A lot of misconceptions on how wealth was built in Europe in this thread. I mean yeah, it's fashionable nowadays to talk about how evil white men went around looting and raping the third world but that's not entirely accurate how Europe become wealthy.
Europe became wealthy because of Mercantilism, a precursor to Capitalism. They went to new places, established trade and gained from that trade, something we do today in a more complex and refined way. They brought new products to European markets, and sold European products to other markets and gained. Sure there was oppression but that wasn't a quality exclusive to Euro powers, in fact, they were a lot more civil in how they treated others compared to how African tribes treat each other or how Muslims treat blacks or how the Japs treated the Koreans and Chinese, etc.
Also this image of Euro powers setting up shops and wholesale oppression happening of ethnic populations was not reality most of the time. Most of the time the Euros came and were peacefully accepted. There's a reason why England, a small island kingdom for example was able to hold India & China for so long, and it's not because they were some ruthless dictators like the Japs were.
Not saying there wasn't oppression or inequality but those ethnic populations also greatly benefited from the technology that England brought to them and gained in wealth.
which part of your post disagrees with the bolded part of my post? i said "partially" and in the hip example the person is being rebuilt, they had to have a hip in the first place.
maybe you just wanted to go on a historant, cant blame u there.
maybe you were confused, i said the US's wealth is partially from african slaves. and that wealth went on to rebuild Germany. so they owe part of their rebuilding to african slaves, just discounting Ampoo's simple point. they still don't owe most of their success to african slaves.
This post was edited by thesnipa on May 31 2018 11:20am