Subj : Great Replacement Theory
To   : Kaelon
From : Arelor
Date : Sat May 28 2022 22:37:42

  Re: Great Replacement Theory
  By: Kaelon to Boraxman on Sat May 28 2022 10:45 am

 > 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,

Spaniards often deal with claims from foreigners that we screwed their
countries and that their problems are our fault. It gets tiresome for a number
of reasons.

First of all, if a given region has belonged to a country for more than a
century and then it splits out, they cease being of concern of the original
country for good or bad. If they had three meals a day under Spanish domination
and then they must resort to eating stones after leaving, claims that food
scarcity is Pizarro's fault come across as cringeworthy.

This is specially true with countries that separated more than one century ago.
Even if it was true that the country that controlled them to begin with was The
Big Bad and utterly destroyed the region, the failure to refloat their country
after they walk away is theirs. Germany bounced back from being reduced to
rubble _twice_ in a matter of decades just in the 20th Century. Spain bounced
back after trying to self destruct with its Civil War in a matter of 50 years.
Convincing people that your country is in the mud because it was an English or
Spanish colony 100 or 150 years ago is a hard sell because countries are known
to rebuild themselves in much less time.

In the case of Spanish colonies it gets specially tricky because the usual
claim is that Spaniards owe them reparation funds because our ancestors turned
their regions into protectorates. The funny part is that _our_ ancestors stayed
in mainland Spain. Meanwhile, Conquistadores got to South America and mixed
with the natives, to the point the Conquistadores that supposedly raped South
America are actually _their_ ancestors and not ours.

Relatedly, something that always amazes me is how much hate Spaniards get from
their ex-colonies, given that Spain was a relatively benevolent tyrant. There
were bills of rights enacted to the rights of natives were recognized,
Spaniards mixed with the local population instead of going Aparheid and
enforcing racial and cultural separation. Meanwhile the English Empire ran
slave rings, got natives in reserves, enforced cultural and ratioal
segregation, and lots of their ex-colonies have cordial relations with the UK.
What the Fucking Fuck.

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