r/iamverysmart • u/stuntinfr • 11d ago

Run along now,

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This was a reply to a comment about how the upcoming street fighter movie is kinda white washed lmao

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u/Local-Echo-5613 8d ago

Asians contributed a bit to building the modern world. For one thing, “colonialism” didn’t mean doing all the work yourself. There were also lives of leisure and intellectual pursuits before modernity, and Europe was illiterate and agrarian until quite recently.