Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.

https://lemmy.world/post/23876035

Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear. - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Europeans like to pretend they’re innocent, but they are the benefactors of most the damaging empires to have ever existed. They colonized nearly the entire world, extracting value from other cultures while destroying them. They pulled out once it was financially wise, keeping the wealth they extracted and leaving behind the destruction they created. They then blame everyone else for their issues while bragging about how awesome the EU is while overlooking that the EU is only possible due to the wealth they stole from everyone else. Europe likes to discuss that they had their social hardship discussing WWII, but the origin and impact of WWII there was internal to Europe. Had Europe been subject to colonization from elsewhere, it would be just as much a mess as other places. Look at the situation in former Soviet Pact countries that were practically colonized by Russia for maybe half a century. Now imagine if instead of half a century, it was hundreds of years and 5 times as brutal.

Fun fact: The term “colony” comes from Christopher Colombus’ name, which is Spanish is Cristobal Colon. Even the term colonization derives from a European.

tl;dr: Europe got to where it is by destroying the rest of the world while blaming the rest of the world for their issues. Their critique of USA is merely a distraction from their own responsibility.

Yeah I think they’re aware of colonisation
They’re still arrogant as fuck and most of the world can’t stand Europeans. I’ve lived there a couple of years and experienced the arrogance personally. Yeah we get it, you have bought in to your indoctrination and you’re mostly good peons all wishing you could force your behaviors on the rest of the world.

NGL, it sounds like your describing Americans, sorry!

Which country did you live in?

American are a lot more willing to criticize our ruling regime and half of us talk about how us is doing crimes actively... We know where out daddies obtained their capital.

The same can't be said about Germans for example or French.

Russians?

The French love to riot and protest the govt. …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unres…
List of incidents of civil unrest in France - Wikipedia

The French run a neo colonial empire... Ask them about that. Or how they CFA franc regime operates although PR so bad I think they stopped stealing interest on deposit.

Are you talking about Overseas France? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_France

Overseas regions have exactly the same status as France’s mainland regions.

Seems similar to Puerto Rico, Samoa and the others …wikipedia.org/…/Territories_of_the_United_States

Overseas France - Wikipedia

Nah, overseas France voted to stay as part of France. After we got our asses kicked in the Algeria War we pretty much let go anyone who wanted to leave as a colony.

The thing is that for Africa special deals were made, which means that France still retains some vestiges of its former colonial power on Africa, which are abused by France at the detriment of African countries

My apologies, I didn’t know about this. hir.harvard.edu/true-sovereignty-the-cfa-franc-an…

The Macron-Ouattara announcement represents a needed reform. But it is just one of many that needs to happen. Going forward, the challenge will be to keep the benefits of the CFA franc monetary zone, namely a stable currency and low inflation, while transitioning to a new institutional system away from France. A monetary system that holds a former colonial power as the guarantor, regardless of announcements or agreements, will always ultimately fail to eradicate neocolonialism.

True Sovereignty? The CFA Franc and French Influence in West and Central Africa

"A monetary system that holds a former colonial power as the guarantor, regardless of announcements or agreements, will always ultimately fail to eradicate neocolonialism."

Harvard International Review

Germans? Germans talk about the Nazi crimes every other year in history class. They’ll read at least two books in lit handling the Nazis and the fallout. They have holocaust memorials big and small in every city. German government is up Israel’s ass because they’re jews. Every video game that could even have a slight chance of glorifying Nazis is banned. When Coca Cola wanted to bring back Fanta like it was made “in the good old days” they conjured a huge shit storm, had to pull everything and issue an apology. Nazis are still being prosecuted and sentenced today. Every so often a new big book or movie is released to big media fanfare that deals with Nazi history.

Maybe you’re talking about other colonisation efforts and genocides. They are also actively being acknowledged by government and media alike. They do get lost in this little war that completely shaped the whole world for the next 100 and probably more years.

You mean the French who criticize their government all day long for the past hundred years?
Saying that with a straight face while a outright fascist is coming into power and every us billionaire is stepping in line to kiss their ring while the working class is doing nothing of importance. USians must be the most submissive culture in the world while actually thinking it’s the most revolutionary.

Some truth there but we also have Luigi...

USians must be the most submissive culture in the world while actually thinking it's the most revolutionary.

We have our bootlickers too. I never suggested revolutionary, but critical. Europeans have melt down at any criticism, Germans esp.

criticism of what? The superiority of EU culture? I’m not sure what kind of “meltdown” you’ve experienced.

American are a lot more willing to criticize our ruling regime and half of us talk about how us is doing crimes actively… We know where out daddies obtained their capital.

This describes all of us. Remember class solidarity !

Ah an aussie. Have clean hands do you? No racism there?
A stolen generation and a whole lot more I’m sad to say

They’re still arrogant as fuck and most of the world can’t stand Europeans.

lol and what utopia do you hail from? bet it’s full of assholes and bastards too

I think that’s the point. Every country/culture/society has its own problems and it is quite grating when individuals from various countries act like their country’s problems aren’t as bad as everyone else’s or that their excuses are valid but no one else’s is.
Sounds like America
I’m not European, but do go off