this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
61 points (83.5% liked)

Canada

7215 readers
717 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Universities


💵 Finance / Shopping


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social and Culture


Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] small44 9 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

The colonizer is the bad guy and the colonized in the good guy. It's that simple

[–] sailingbythelee -1 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

This is a lazy and simplistic worldview. Every single square mile of land has been colonized, conquered, re-conquered, and conquered again. In other words, every culture has been both colonizer and colonized. Human migration has been occurring since time immemorial, and human migration generally means displacing whomever was there before. It is often a chain reaction, where one migration causes another, causes another, ad infinitum throigh history. In the most dramatic situations we sometimes label it genocide, but usually it's more of a slow blending of cultures (and genes) over time.

[–] DarthJon -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's rare, but every now and then I find a voice of reason on this website. Thank you.

[–] sailingbythelee 1 points 2 weeks ago
load more comments (10 replies)
load more comments (14 replies)