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Wonder Why

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1. If it wasn't Cook, it would have been someone else not too much later

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Apr 7, 2024, 08:42 PM

Apr 2024

who might have been better or worse but would still bring the colonialism, diseases not encountered by locals and the Western concepts of getting rich and acquiring territory before the other European countries did so.

And the Romans did it 2000+ years ago to other Europeans then had it done to their world by "barbarians".

The history of Western civilization which happened to and by other cultures before and after. It continues to this day.

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The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2024 OP

If it wasn't Cook, it would have been someone else not too much later Wonder Why Apr 2024 #1

and to be completely accurate stopdiggin Apr 2024 #2

Hawaiians vilify Cook yet they wholeheartedly appropriated the british Victorian system and msongs Apr 2024 #3

+1. it generally is ... (a little more complicated than at first glance) stopdiggin Apr 2024 #4