it was entirely legal according to the succession laws of their [low countries'] country, and when the calvinists started the spanish acted fully within their rights under the Peace of Augsburg :sicko-luna:
Calling Norway a colony is a bit too much in my opinion. It was more of a dynastic bullshit situation where the king who only cared about you if he wanted you to pay taxes or be a soldier spoke a different dialect than you did yourself. The Danes and the Swedes were not angels but I don't think they engineered famines or tried to eradicate Norwegian culture and Norwegians were not seen as being inferior to Danes or Swedes.
Iceland and the Faroe Islands are better candidates for European victims of imperialism but even there there was not the racist component that you found in Ireland.
Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is definitely a victim of still ongoing imperialism but I don't know if they count as European.
I won't you're right. They were also the only country in Europe to get colonized. Interesting relationship there :soviet-hmm:
I think it's more that Ireland is still currently colonized. Cyprus, Finland, Netherlands, and Norway have also been colonies
the netherlands were never a colony. unless you count the dutch colonizing the innocent alluvial marshes :theory-gary:
I was thinking of when the Netherlands were Spanish. What would that be considered?
feudal overlordship. no-one was particularly bothered until the calvinists started stirring shit
Habsburg domination of the low countries was justified
i will die on this hill smh 😤
it was entirely legal according to the succession laws of their [low countries'] country, and when the calvinists started the spanish acted fully within their rights under the Peace of Augsburg :sicko-luna:
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Calling Norway a colony is a bit too much in my opinion. It was more of a dynastic bullshit situation where the king who only cared about you if he wanted you to pay taxes or be a soldier spoke a different dialect than you did yourself. The Danes and the Swedes were not angels but I don't think they engineered famines or tried to eradicate Norwegian culture and Norwegians were not seen as being inferior to Danes or Swedes.
Iceland and the Faroe Islands are better candidates for European victims of imperialism but even there there was not the racist component that you found in Ireland.
Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is definitely a victim of still ongoing imperialism but I don't know if they count as European.
if we're talking about colonialism / imperialism in Scandinavia then definitely the Sapmi were / are victims
you're conflating imperialism / feudal dominion with colonialism here tho
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Ireland in the 1600s was the dress rehearsal for the British empire