Generally speaking, averaging it all out, colonialism was a net ____ for the countries that got colonized
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Do you include North America in that statement?
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The indigenous peoples in the America's and Australia were almost wiped entirely out through disease, genocide and subjugation. In Africa and Asia the natives where not annihilated but where still victim to various brutal genocides, the Rubber Terror likely being the worst.
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Right. Americans, Aboriginals and Maoris were decimated. So in their case, it would be hard to argue it turned out great. Most borders in Africa and the Middle East were established by colonizers through war and genocide, leaving behind segregated communities and civil war.
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I have big trouble trusting these claims, since so many people seem to be using historic claims about this to push an agenda. For example, by calling unintentional transmission of disease a genocide, but only sometimes. COVID is not called a genocide by the Chinese.
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Colonization replaced most of original north american population with immigrants.
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Yes, they were. Entire civilizations and their people were wiped out. White and latinos didn't exist in the Americas before colonialism, and now they dominate. The African demography that exist today are a small fraction if the diversity that exists pre-colonization. ditto india
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There's a good book...Guns, Germs, and Steel. Talks a lot about how and why this happens in an unbiased matter of fact way. Won a Pulitzer Prize even.
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~50 million deaths attributed to European colonialism alone just in the 20th century and there are ~5 centuries of it...
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Australia and the Americas were. Africa and most of Asia weren't
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