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#1112362
Sylvana
Colonialism is a tricky one.
In the case of America, the colony became a successful nation largely because it slaughtered nearly all the native inhabitants.
In Afric for the most part, the natives were instead enslaved and used as labour. Eventually the slaves outnumber the colonists and a revolt happens. This results in the colonists who were running the show being killed or exiled, and the now freed slaves having to try and figure out how to run a nation.
The suppression of the natives without the extermination of them is what leads to an unsucessful collony. Eventually the natives have the numbers to take thier nation back, but are unprepared to run the nation after they do so.(its not a nice way to say it, but if the Native Americans were not left as an endagered species they would have eventually kicked the whites out and America would be a lot like most african countries.)
2/8/2010 11:37:18 PM
#1112387
Brenz
This should be in RSTDT.
Dude, Liberia...? That's...that's like a double-reverse colony. That doesn't even fit.
2/9/2010 12:18:58 AM
#1112407
louislois
Shouldn't this be in RSTDT?
2/9/2010 12:44:13 AM
#1112465
That they are in the situation they are because of colonialism, maybe?
2/9/2010 3:35:14 AM
#1112482
Orion
@#1112094 The L: Woah woah woah dude! Don't forget New Zealand and Australia.
2/9/2010 4:12:49 AM
#1112599
The Rowan
How is this FSTDT?
2/9/2010 8:33:02 AM
#1112618
Anon-e-moose
"Tell me again, what was the problem with colonialism?"
Speaking as an Englishman, oh, I dunno. Rhodesia, India, West Indies, Burma, South Africa, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, America... They're all the same. So tell me again,
What was the problem with colonialism?
2/9/2010 8:56:07 AM
#1112633
Morrigan
Racism, Social Problems, Exploiting resources for wich the colonies see almost no benefits...
Future Crippled economies, unstable government...
And douches like you who can't tell how the world works.
2/9/2010 9:24:22 AM
#1112715
IrishSoldierLaddie
Colonialism raped all of those countries and left them in the sticky puddle to stew for two hundred years.
...My analogy went horribly wrong, somewhere.
2/9/2010 1:27:11 PM
#1399603
Often Partisan
The British.
In Kenya.
Fuck off.
5/6/2012 5:59:12 AM
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