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Dutch king makes historic apology for his country’s colonial past (www.politico.eu)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Many natives welcomed the colonizers because they could trade with the them and advance their own cultures. It wasn’t purely about oppressors and oppressed. That binary view is simply removed from reality.

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