Subj : Great Replacement Theory
To   : Boraxman
From : Kaelon
Date : Sat May 28 2022 10:45:52

  Re: Great Replacement Theory
  By: Boraxman to Kaelon on Sat May 28 2022 06:55 pm

 > By the way, the Arab world was imperialistic, as were the Mongols, and if
 > you think that the first nations of Australia, America, or the peoples in
 > Sub-Saharan Africa lived in peace and harmony, you have a skewed view of
 > history.  They didn't attain the same level of imperialism not because of
 > their virtues, but lack of technical capacity to do so.

All civilizations engage in imperialism as a natural part of their social, economic, and political expression. There are very few exceptions of inherently passive or pacifist populations (because most if not all of them were subjugated, assimilated, or annihilated).  However, there is always cause-and-effect, and the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates paid dearly for their expansion across the world in the form of countless Crusades that ended their empires, and since the collapse of the Ottoman Hegemony in the 1600s, widespread subjugation, colonization, and global interference - from League of Nations mandates to modern day United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Europe, by and large, is still dealing with the consequences of its colonization of Africa, which as I mentioned elsewhere, only effectively terminated in the 1960s.  If you've read Douglas C. North's "Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance" (strongly recommended, if you haven't), you can appreciate that in order for new organizational stability to emerge, institutional predictability requires at least 2-3 generations to resolve outstanding political, economic, and social issues.  Europe has another 10-25 years to contend with before these matters become clearer, and the European Union and its fate will factor largely in the emergence of a true Pan-European Identity, but so far, the picture looks mixed, at best.
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