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minus-square Chipthemonk ( @Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoIt’s hard to imagine that we would be where we are today, as a technologically advanced and free society in the west, without colonialism.
minus-square #WikiParty ( @michaelgraaf@campaign.openworlds.info ) linkfedilink1•1 year ago@Chipthemonk To assist your imagination, consider Japan. It wasn’t colonised (in fact it eventually became a coloniser) but found its own path to development.
It’s hard to imagine that we would be where we are today, as a technologically advanced and free society in the west, without colonialism.
@Chipthemonk To assist your imagination, consider Japan. It wasn’t colonised (in fact it eventually became a coloniser) but found its own path to development.