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Understood. I guess I'm just seeing your argument through a globalist lens because I'm coming from outside America, but of course, one size does not fit all.

I do agree, though, that at least in recent history and recent memory the worst colonizers seem to have been White Europeans. I don't think the Chinese, or the Ottomans, or the Mayans, or whatever colonized and subjugated the world on the scale of White Christians from Europe.

I also think there's a unique ingredient to White-Christian-colonialism that is, forcing the colonized to believe whatever spirituality they believe in. As far as I know, this isn't as big of a problem in, say, Hinduism or Buddhism. (Again, I'm not a historian, this is just my impression.)

Anyway, thanks for clarifying your point of view and thanks again for writing!

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Li Charmaine Anne
Li Charmaine Anne

Written by Li Charmaine Anne

(She/They) Author on unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver, Canada). At work on first novel. Get links to read my stuff for free: https://bit.ly/2MleRqJ

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