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Every country should ban American social networks and messaging tools ASAP


BBC has very little credibility in the developing world


I prefer subject experts over Wikipedia.


Britannica's online format suits it very well


No wonder Terrorism is supported by oil money.


So brown people migrating is wrong but white people migrating and colonizing whole continents is ok?


PPP what matters


California wasn't colonised but india was for 200 years by Europeans


How would you describe the arrival of people from Europe and elsewhere into what is now California?


I meant extraction of resources by Europeans for 200 years. C


And they managed to end slavery and the caste system while they were there (that unfortunately came back as soon as India got independent again).

No need to thank the “Europeans”. You’re welcome.


> And they managed to end slavery and the caste system while they were there (that unfortunately came back as soon as India got independent again).

1. Did they really end slavery if you rename it to something else? [0]

2. You didn't end caste system. If anything you made it more rigid

> No need to thank the “Europeans”. You’re welcome.

Thank you for all the massacres and famines Europeans. [1] [2]

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_indenture_system

[1]. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/12/britai...

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

I didn't even scrape the surface of the atrocities you did.


Slavery by whom? Whites and Muslims?


No, by Indians.

That’s why, still today, India is the country with the most slaves in the world, continuing their long tradition of the practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_India


Who do you think named it "California?" It sure wasn't the natives.


> California wasn't colonised

Yes it was.


Brazil, Iran and China should be prepared for the worst now


4 hour work week, rich dad poor dad, get rich quick books are nothing but trash but somehow they became best sellers.


The “somehow” is obvious, innit?


Site needs better UI without a doubt.

Copy HN UI as its. no one cares.

Good luck


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