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Dutch king makes historic apology for his country’s colonial past (www.politico.eu)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Chipthemonk What you say about being advanced is true if defined militarily. So they "needed to be colonised" because they were unable to repel colonisers (as Japan did, and as Ethiopia did until the 1930s)?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Many natives welcomed the colonizers because they could trade with the them and advance their own cultures. It wasn’t purely about oppressors and oppressed. That binary view is simply removed from reality.