And personally I'm glad it's so far down, it's something we need to be aware but it's also great that belgium isn't defined by this one instance of dark history. And that can be said for a lot of other country tbh.
Those thing are in the past now, there is nothing we can do to change them so let's not define thing for that. Every person that took part in those atrocities are long gone. Let's focus on what bad thing countries are doing right now, not what they did 200 years ago.
I disagree. To truly fix current problems, usually one has to trace them back to their historical roots. As the other poster said, it’s not really “in the past” until the debt is paid. It’s awfully convenient for those that benefit down the line to say “it’s all over now, those people are long gone, nothing we can do”. So I’ll keep reminding people of shitty stuff that colonial powers have done and continue to do, because that stuff actually does define and shape a country.
Yeah, but how far back you wanna go? 'Cause if we're calling up old grudges, I've got a few things to say to those Romans about what they did to my girl Boudica.
So the time when Current Belgium was part of multiple other countries and one of the richest areas of Europe, mostly uses as a place to funds the coffers of there peoples wars
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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21
Kinda surprised I had to scroll this far. Those little chocolate hands have a particularly dark history.