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Originally Posted by DSTRen13
What does that mean??  |
She is saying that colonialists integrated, hence colonialism.
And without the integration of different groups of people, there would be no need to create racial and ethnic distinctions or the resulting racism. In her mind, integration is simply any type of adding different races and ethnicities of people together in a given setting. It's a static occurrence instead of a dynamic process of social interaction.
Well, looking at the history of this world, the processes of "othering" and "exploitation" happened long before groups actually integrate, voluntarily or involuntarily. The stripping of land and economic foundation for the enslavement and exploitation of labor of certain groups of people, didn't require integration. It required outsider control of land and/or people and the ability of outsiders to come in, take, and leave. Or stay, and reside among people who look like them with little to no interaction with "others." And the "others" that were interacted with were not social equals. That isn't integration.
Dammit, Soror, you tricked me into explaining.
