• Lodra
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    4 months ago

    This is funny timing for me. I mentioned something related to my wife yesterday. When I was a kid, my perception of other countries was completely ridiculous. Low tech, uncivilized, impoverished, etc. compared to the USA. It took way too long for me to achieve a more realistic perspective of foreign countries at large. I’m not sure who to blame for this but the they surely belong to the previous generation or two.

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      4 months ago

      This is the standard colonial/imperial gaze 1, 2. Blame the racist colonizers who genocided people and stole all this land. It’s no different today. Just look at Palestine.