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Originally Posted by mapuc
So the White man have been accused for something which toke place hundreds of years ago.
What about the rest of the human kind.
What about the Islamic countries ?
What about China ?
What about Africa ?
From memory.
From some of the episode of the history of slavery, I saw I seem to recall that these three countries also was in to this business too.
Markus
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I’d say it comes from an ignorance of history. Most depictions of slavery just portray the white traders and owners, rather than the Africans who sold their own people into slavery, or the existence of slavery in other cultures.
Ironically, it’s actually a pretty good example of ethnocentrism. “We should talk about the history of slavery, but only the stuff involving people with my skin colour.”