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navigatesol on July 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zo...

>White empires

I assume you mean European? Why do you refer to the empire by skin colour, but the territory by name?

kingkawn on July 8, 2019 [–]

Because that is how those culture’s experienced it, and that is also the terms around which Europeans justified their actions.

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