@ADumbOx1945@SirJBritain@Antonin_FR_ And it was nothing like what is happening today. The term is being misused as some sort of justification for what happening now. Colonialism was the importing of ideas, institutions, infrastructure. Millions of Brits weren't moving to India for example.
@nameless090111@JackPosobiec I'll go out on a limb here and suggest maybe you've got a wee bit of gratitude for those banished people.
Turned out alright.
@nameless090111@JackPosobiec I get it. But banishing rubbish or undesirables is far a cry from a penial colony filled with criminals.
It was just a way out from the majority of them. They risked it all trying to get there on their own. And then again when starting a rebellion.
@Bashprofitsug@PritaniDan@SenTedCruz This is the low iq stereotype won't go away.
They kicked out whitey and invited in the Chinese.
With modern mining and logistics assets they're shifting resources in volumes the colonial powers could only dream of.