Funny because even limiting it to "western expansion" is understating it, it implies the eastern US isn't also a colonial empire. Like, the entire USA is an oppressive colonial empire, just without a "motherland".
I mean I agree, but I also don't know how to reconcile this with the fact that, after some number of generations, it essentially is your "motherland". Like I have no connection to the places my ancestors come from, including not speaking the languages spoken there. I've been meaning to find some better stuff about decolonization to read, as I think I get too much stuff from the internet at times.
Further, after 6-8 generations, they concept of anestral homeland seizes to even make sense, since you have 2^n ancestors at that point (64 and 256 for 6 and 8, respectfully). Yeah some of those might be "repeats" but don't expect them all to come from the same nation. Not at all.
You probably couldn't even get 15% to admit we have an empire, let alone not be ashamed of it.
Funny because even limiting it to "western expansion" is understating it, it implies the eastern US isn't also a colonial empire. Like, the entire USA is an oppressive colonial empire, just without a "motherland".
I mean I agree, but I also don't know how to reconcile this with the fact that, after some number of generations, it essentially is your "motherland". Like I have no connection to the places my ancestors come from, including not speaking the languages spoken there. I've been meaning to find some better stuff about decolonization to read, as I think I get too much stuff from the internet at times.
Further, after 6-8 generations, they concept of anestral homeland seizes to even make sense, since you have 2^n ancestors at that point (64 and 256 for 6 and 8, respectfully). Yeah some of those might be "repeats" but don't expect them all to come from the same nation. Not at all.