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re: Was Africa better off under European colonial rule?
Posted on 8/28/22 at 11:29 am to AggieHank86
Posted on 8/28/22 at 11:29 am to AggieHank86
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what value do we assign to the right of self-determination?
So - that is the basis of the question I have asked in the above post
what would aggiehank have done if he had been in charge of actions after that first momentous contact>>>>??
really interested in YOUR take on "how we went wrong -> and who, when, where, what would have made it better."
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Posted on 8/28/22 at 11:35 am to ChineseBandit58
Bandit, you are correct in observing that some sort of Prime Directive would never have worked. Once contact was established, ongoing contact was a given.
The question is really whether that ongoing contact could have been better handled.
Would it have been possible to have something looking less like exploitation, genocide and enslavement and more like the Marshall Plan? I honestly do not know. Without the profits to be made from exploitation, would anyone have invested in an uplift program?
The question is really whether that ongoing contact could have been better handled.
Would it have been possible to have something looking less like exploitation, genocide and enslavement and more like the Marshall Plan? I honestly do not know. Without the profits to be made from exploitation, would anyone have invested in an uplift program?
This post was edited on 8/28/22 at 11:39 am
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