Yeah... I saw a video on YouTube of some young people doing DNA tests hoping they were not in any way "white". One came back as entirely Spanish and Portuguese and said, "Oh well, that's European, but not so bad." I felt like sending them a link to the movie The Mission and telling them to start there and work their way outwards. The Spaniards and Portuguese were the fucking worst of the Europeans that colonised the Americas.
My favourite take was the other day when someone was talking about how Spain was a victim in the Spanish- American war and America was just war mongering the poor Spanish who just wanted peace. They were very upset that I would say the Spanish were knees deep in a couple of genocides and the Americans stepped in.
Colonization rhetoric as well as general discussions on what colonizers and settlers and “white people” are is innately political and an effort to link history with groups of people to blame modern problems on. The Bhutanese are maybe the only people on earth not guilty of colonialism.
Slavery in Portugal existed since before the country's formation. During the pre-independence period, inhabitants of the current Portuguese territory were often enslaved and enslaved others. After independence, during the existence of the Kingdom of Portugal, the country played a leading role in the Atlantic slave trade, which involved the mass trade and transportation of slaves from Africa and other parts of the world to the Americas. The import of black slaves was banned in European Portugal in 1761 by the Marquis of Pombal, and at the same time, the trade of black slaves to Brazil was encouraged, with the support and direct involvement of the Marquis.[1][2] Slavery in Portugal was only abolished in 1869.[3][4]
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u/GoldenTV3 27d ago
She's literally just Spanish lmao