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expedition32today at 7:57 AM3 repliesview on HN

When people came from Algeria, Jamaica and Suriname to Europe they were not foreigners they had French, British and Dutch passports.

Germany's lack of such a colonial empire kept the country from transitioning into a true multicultural society. It explains Germans special branch of racism.


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KellyCriteriontoday at 8:40 AM

So "Germans are special in their racissm" because they had no "luck of such colonial empire"??

Im glad that this country didnt play a larger role in colonialism! Your sentence is the first I hear in decaded advocading for "if they had colonialism as well, it would be a much better country because then they wouldnt be racist"??

By the way - Poland or Hungary also had no "luck of colonial empire" - what about them? As well as tons of other European states?

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dgellowtoday at 8:45 AM

Germany had a colonial empire though

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dgellowtoday at 8:48 AM

> When people came from Algeria … to Europe they were not foreigners they had French … passports.

That’s not true at all for France with Algerians. The history of hate towards them has been horrible and is still very recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Paris_massacre