South Africa parliament votes to seize white owned land

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(03-08-2018, 05:23 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: The British precisely had the correct way to colonize. You can’t just integrate with native peoples.   You need to go in and set the standard at that point the natives can assimilate or fight back.   It’s not easy to bring the civilized world to savages.   They will get violent because they are uncivilized.  

This is a hilarious interpretation of history. The idea that there's a "correct" way to colonize and some outsider needs to go in to set a "standard" pretty much sums up your worldview that many of us know you to have very well.  

The idea that the world wasn't civilized prior to the British "civilly" slaughtering thousands of people is inherently contradictory to the idea of "civilization", but I'm not sure if your western-centric view of history will allow you to understand things from any other perspective. 

Quote:The world would have evolved much slower without the British and Dutch colonial pursuits.

Colonizing isn't needed for many peoples of the world to advance organically as they interact with the rest of the world. What's even more ironic, is that we are currently speaking in this thread of an issue that had direct links to British and Dutch colonization. So if nothing else, this is just another example of where British and Dutch colonizing efforts didn't evolve a society, but rather damaged it for generations to come. There are myriads of examples all across the world where some of this can be attributed to the British, but this is neither the thread for it, nor, considering whom I'm responding to, a worthwhile endeavor in terms of honestly engaged conversation.