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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

America was the 'Land of Opportunity' for the downtrodden Europeans suffering under the rich, so we went to America and unloaded that grief on the Indigenous people we slaughtered and the African people we abducted to serve us.

let's not make these mistakes again if we do make it out into Space, we can choose Elon's path or Star Trek.

Just as how most AfroAmericans cannot be traced directly to only being Yoruba, Akan, or Congolese, most EuroAmericans cannot be traced directly to only being English, German, or French. We associate the word Diaspora with people who have been scattered by circumstance, the African diaspora, the Asian diaspora, the Jewish diaspora—and so we don't usually speak of a European Diaspora. Yet when you look at the history of colonialism, not all the colonists were signing up to cross the ocean out of patriotic fervor for Mother England, many were poor, drafted by the military, or of an ethnic or religious minority. Especially in the 19th century, the European immigrants were not too dissimilar from the Chinese immigrants. It was American racism that privileged them over the Chinese, not socioeconomic class. It would be accurate to say that there is a European Diaspora, with diaspora cuisine and gestalt cultures. EuroAmericans are, arguably, a distinct cultural group, and they identify with "white."
#Diaspora#Whiteness#Colonialism
Mar 25, 2025, 04:48 PM·Public·Web
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