@praetor LMAO British colonialism produced Tetley's tea.
You just prefer your flavor of colonialism. At least an Indian corporation eventually bought that particular colonial institution.
How about trying to migrate to transnational business which doesn't begin with colonialism?
Like perhaps an Indian tea producer which was founded by an Indian, who sells the kind of tea I drink, and not that colonialist originated stuff?
@praetor @femme_mal For Germany, it's more complex. Germany became a coloniser only in the late 1870s for <50 years. What led to Nazism was rather the Versailles treaty, which was the peak of a tit-for-tat French-German escalation since 1804. The Nazis exploited the common sentiment of having been badly treated, blamed the left and Jews as traitors, and campaigned on reversing Versailles.
It was rather Mussolini with his abessinian ventures who wanted to recreate the (Roman) colonial empire.
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1. I didn't deny German colonialism. I just disagreed with you on linking the 3rd Reich with colonialism.
2. The "Brandenburgische" was about slave trade, lasted 30 years, and was over 200 years before Hitler's birth. And as despicable as it was, I do not see a connection.
3. Expansionism and colonialism are closely related. However, the latter term is indeed mainly used for European overseas expansion after 1492. I haven't heard people saying the Normans colonised England.
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