$Jump to content
FlameWar
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
BigFig to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4M
Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.
message-square
798
fedilink
233
message-square
Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.
BigFig to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4M
message-square
798
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • @kaffiene@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    49•4M

    Yeah I think they’re aware of colonisation

    • @doingthestuff@lemy.lol
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -41•
      edit-2
      4M

      deleted by creator

      • @mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        21•4M

        They’re still arrogant as fuck and most of the world can’t stand Europeans.

        lol and what utopia do you hail from? bet it’s full of assholes and bastards too

        • @medgremlin@midwest.social
          link
          fedilink
          5•4M

          I think that’s the point. Every country/culture/society has its own problems and it is quite grating when individuals from various countries act like their country’s problems aren’t as bad as everyone else’s or that their excuses are valid but no one else’s is.

      • @INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        18•4M

        NGL, it sounds like your describing Americans, sorry!

        Which country did you live in?

        • @kreskin@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          1•4M

          Ah an aussie. Have clean hands do you? No racism there?

          • @INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
            link
            fedilink
            1•4M

            A stolen generation and a whole lot more I’m sad to say

        • sunzu2
          link
          fedilink
          -19•4M

          American are a lot more willing to criticize our ruling regime and half of us talk about how us is doing crimes actively… We know where out daddies obtained their capital.

          The same can’t be said about Germans for example or French.

          Russians?

          • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            2•4M

            American are a lot more willing to criticize our ruling regime and half of us talk about how us is doing crimes actively… We know where out daddies obtained their capital.

            This describes all of us. Remember class solidarity !

          • @d00ery@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            11•
            edit-2
            4M

            The French love to riot and protest the govt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_France.

            The British frequently review and criticise it’s past actions https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637720

            Of course, we also acknowledge the Norman and Roman invasions of Britain, but it happened so long ago we don’t expect the Italians or French to apologise about it now…

            • sunzu2
              link
              fedilink
              6•4M

              The French run a neo colonial empire… Ask them about that. Or how they CFA franc regime operates although PR so bad I think they stopped stealing interest on deposit.

              • @d00ery@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                2•4M

                My apologies, I didn’t know about this. https://hir.harvard.edu/true-sovereignty-the-cfa-franc-and-french-influence-in-west-and-central-africa/

                The Macron-Ouattara announcement represents a needed reform. But it is just one of many that needs to happen. Going forward, the challenge will be to keep the benefits of the CFA franc monetary zone, namely a stable currency and low inflation, while transitioning to a new institutional system away from France. A monetary system that holds a former colonial power as the guarantor, regardless of announcements or agreements, will always ultimately fail to eradicate neocolonialism.

              • @d00ery@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                2•4M

                Are you talking about Overseas France? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_France

                Overseas regions have exactly the same status as France’s mainland regions.

                Seems similar to Puerto Rico, Samoa and the others https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States

                • @CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  2•4M

                  Nah, overseas France voted to stay as part of France. After we got our asses kicked in the Algeria War we pretty much let go anyone who wanted to leave as a colony.

                  The thing is that for Africa special deals were made, which means that France still retains some vestiges of its former colonial power on Africa, which are abused by France at the detriment of African countries

          • @INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
            link
            fedilink
            4•
            edit-2
            4M

            Really though?

          • Björn Tantau
            link
            fedilink
            20•4M

            Germans? Germans talk about the Nazi crimes every other year in history class. They’ll read at least two books in lit handling the Nazis and the fallout. They have holocaust memorials big and small in every city. German government is up Israel’s ass because they’re jews. Every video game that could even have a slight chance of glorifying Nazis is banned. When Coca Cola wanted to bring back Fanta like it was made “in the good old days” they conjured a huge shit storm, had to pull everything and issue an apology. Nazis are still being prosecuted and sentenced today. Every so often a new big book or movie is released to big media fanfare that deals with Nazi history.

            Maybe you’re talking about other colonisation efforts and genocides. They are also actively being acknowledged by government and media alike. They do get lost in this little war that completely shaped the whole world for the next 100 and probably more years.

            • sunzu2
              link
              fedilink
              1•4M

              Nazis are still being prosecuted and sentenced today.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche–Piëch_family

          • @heavydust@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            24•4M

            You mean the French who criticize their government all day long for the past hundred years?

          • db0
            link
            fedilink
            5•
            edit-2
            4M

            Saying that with a straight face while a outright fascist is coming into power and every us billionaire is stepping in line to kiss their ring while the working class is doing nothing of importance. USians must be the most submissive culture in the world while actually thinking it’s the most revolutionary.

            • sunzu2
              link
              fedilink
              2•4M

              Some truth there but we also have Luigi…

              USians must be the most submissive culture in the world while actually thinking it’s the most revolutionary.

              We have our bootlickers too. I never suggested revolutionary, but critical. Europeans have melt down at any criticism, Germans esp.

              • db0
                link
                fedilink
                1•4M

                criticism of what? The superiority of EU culture? I’m not sure what kind of “meltdown” you’ve experienced.

      • @kaffiene@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        2•4M

        I’m not European, but do go off

      • @tht@social.pwned.page
        link
        fedilink
        English
        3•4M

        Sounds like America

Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world
!asklemmy@lemmy.world
Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !asklemmy@lemmy.world

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have fun

Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'

This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spam

Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reason

Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.

It is not a place for ‘how do I?’, type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.

Please don’t post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


  • 249 users / day
  • 1.71K users / week
  • 4.58K users / month
  • 11.1K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 5.7K Posts
  • 273K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world
  • TheSaneWriter
  • TheSaneWriter
  • candyman337
  • asudox
  • Lemmy Mod Bot
  • Sean
  • can@sh.itjust.works
  • @neidu3@sh.itjust.works
  • asudox
  • candyman337
  • BE: 0.18.0
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • Join Lemmy