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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's less a geographical or hemispheric distinction, and more a political one.

This page on imperial core is good.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Should Greece really be on that list? The only criterion where it's not grayed out is "Awarded Parts of China to Japan", which actually means "signed the Treaty of Versailles after WWI". And unlike many of the other countries that signed it, Greece did not get anything to itself from it.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Agree, especially considering how much the EU has screwed over Greece in recent years. Not really an exploiter of global south labor via finance capital, which the US, GB, France, Germany, and the Nordic countries, definitely are.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Technically, Australian's aren't colonisers; they're victims of British colonisation.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I presume whenever u say american u always mean amerindians and never anglo-americans.

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago

You're not making the point you think you are.

I understand the implications of both.

I don't truly call Australian Aboriginals "Australians", I was being facetious.

Also, I call them "Native Americans".