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Map of the world showing parts colonised from Africa (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Aussiemandeus to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I do love a good jape from time to time, but colonization is when you show up and expel/enslave/imprison the people who are already there, which is decidedly not how the spread of people from Africa worked

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the Neanderthals would disagree

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

And the Denisovans

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's going to be real interesting once we finally colonize Mars...

[–] Aussiemandeus 1 points 1 year ago

I imagine it will get like the expanse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's literally not what colonization means. I also promise that most human history is bloody even if you don't know about it. Humans spread out from Africa across the world. My slightly related to me ancestors conquered subjugated and killed their slightly related ancestors. We're all one race.

[–] cristo 1 points 1 year ago

Individual doesnt know the definition of colonization