• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I was mocking the attitude that something can’t be discovered by one group of people if a different group of people already knew about it.

    Columbus discovering the Americas is commonly called a “euro-centric definition of discovery”. While conveniently ignoring that literally nobody in Europe knew the Americas existed.