Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 1 2018 01:58am)
And see what? Pictures of native north americans living in the same pueblos or aboriginals living in gunyahs for 2000 years straight while europeans went through radical cultural and economic development and flow of wealth, before showing up on the US shores to an untamed land?
Your imagination is not a book.
Quote (ampoo @ May 31 2018 04:54pm)
simply laughable
western civilisation was built by us and no one else, slaves did some dirty work in the americas, but feel free to tell me how a country like germany that only had short term, low resource colonies has built everything on the backs of poor africans :lol:
see: the British & the Indian text industry
Quote (ofthevoid @ May 31 2018 07:19pm)
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.
see: colonial rebellions & actual history of colonisation (eg. the Portuguese in the far-East) & the economic development of the lands colonised
The industrial revolution did change the world radically.