Maybe, disdain for those people is one thing, but European powers have engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide over the past 500 years on a global scale inconceivable in previous eras of human history, in part because it wasn’t possible with the tech available during most of that time.
Every country in the Global South has a horror story associated with people of European descent (not present day, from the past) which is pretty far reaching if you think about it, as they make up 80% of humanity.
That’s not something anyone today needs to necessarily feel bad about personally but the systems of exploitation that concentrated wealth amongst the 20% still exist today in different forms.
Just ask Emmanuel Macron who is marching around Africa to find another region to exploit after Sahel countries (Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso) united in ridding themselves of French neocolonialism.
Violent settlement, transatlantic slavery, indentured servitude, the creation of a global race based caste system. It’s not that some semblance of these concepts didn’t exist everywhere. It’s the scale and persistence that matters.
Maybe, disdain for those people is one thing, but European powers have engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide over the past 500 years on a global scale inconceivable in previous eras of human history, in part because it wasn’t possible with the tech available during most of that time.
Every country in the Global South has a horror story associated with people of European descent (not present day, from the past) which is pretty far reaching if you think about it, as they make up 80% of humanity.
That’s not something anyone today needs to necessarily feel bad about personally but the systems of exploitation that concentrated wealth amongst the 20% still exist today in different forms.
Just ask Emmanuel Macron who is marching around Africa to find another region to exploit after Sahel countries (Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso) united in ridding themselves of French neocolonialism.
Violent settlement, transatlantic slavery, indentured servitude, the creation of a global race based caste system. It’s not that some semblance of these concepts didn’t exist everywhere. It’s the scale and persistence that matters.