Before European colonialism, many aggressors existed. Rome, Islamic empires, Chinese empires – all were expansionist and cruel in their own ways.

But none truly hurt people on such an industrial scale and crucially, destroyed culture forever as European colonialism.

Mass murder, genocides and looting. The world isn’t magically poor compared to white Western world (with a few exceptions such as Japan), there is a reason.

The Americas were probably the worst victims. Entire ancient cultures and people wiped out almost entirely, replaced with European invaders who enslaved, robbed, raped and tortured through a beautiful landscape.

The culture and people of the indigenous populations of the Americas have almost disappeared from memory. Think of the USA; hot dogs, obese people high on medication, Trump and rock music. None of that is indigenous culture.

European colonialism not only killed people literally but humanity spiritually. Colonised minds worshipping the culture that enslaved them.

The worldwide beauty standards tend towards the white European. Skin lightening formulas are a multi billion dollar business, so is hair straightening and eye colour contacts – all geared towards how to looks more white.

Hence you will have the likes of Little Richard straightening his hair for white America, only for a natural hair backlash to occur in the 1970s.

The religious beliefs of Africans and those from the Americas never ceases to amaze me. If they gain happiness from it, I have no issue but are people not at least a bit critical that African Americans, Mexicans and South Americans worship the same Christian God that prior to invasion, they never knew.

The same religion used to massacre your people, your culture is now yours? Is this not successful brainwashing and monoculture in action. This is what the colonialists wanted.

What happened to all the presumably beautiful religions they had? Now a Jesus loving monoculture, devoid of diversity.

But it wasn’t just them. The Africans, the Aboriginals of Australia, South Asians all suffered at the hand of the sword of the apparently morally superior West.

India before the British was richer than its later colonial master. Mughal India outstripped any European country for wealth.

This is not to say I am deluded about the Mughals. My ancestors were Sikhs – trust me I do not like the Mughals.

But what the British did was unprecedented. Mughal emperors may have been nasty, brutal dictators but they did not strip Indians of their wealth. They ruled over them but the money stayed in India.

Whereas the British took the money they stole back home to the West and took India from a global powerhouse to an impoverished lame duck. This isn’t to mention the Amritsar massacre, the Bengal famine etc.

All these legacies exist to this day. India still has incredible poverty, so do most African countries, so do many South American ones. Whereas Europe is still the richest area on aggregate on planet Earth.

Many conflicts are directly died to British colonialism – Kashmir, Palestine etc.

European colonialism means I have a Sikh name but I type this in English. The legacy is everywhere, everyday.

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