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Eagle367 said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Who exactly do you mean? Europeans originated in Persia/India after all so that would be "their own region", right?

What do you mean? Europeans didn't originate in Persia/India and even if they did, it wasn't their land. Europeans didn't discover the new world, it was there for a long while with people already there and hell it's said that Africans had reached it way before Columbus. Or was this some sort of joke I didn't understand? Either way, Europeans didn't know when to stop. From China to India to Australia to Indonesia to Malaysia to Afghanistan to most of the middle east and Africa, etc they tried to take control of it all. Today's Europeans are pretty chill but those people back then make me angry just thinking about them.

Why do you get angry about what people did “back then”? Utterly pointless, unhelpful and nonsensical. I’m afraid getting angry about anything in history will do nothing to change it, so you’d be better off simply learning what is good to do and not so good to do and moving forward. Origins of science and maths and literature and art etc etc are all fascinating yet if you’re learning the core subject (maths for example) it’s utterly irrelevant who, what and where “discovered” the equations etc - it matters only that those who are learning it understand it now, in the present, to be able to do something useful with the knowledge. It’s good to keep the knowledge alive of who, what and where, for historical and cultural purposes, but pressing home the ethnicity or culture of the time of the supposed discoverers of anything is unhelpful and time consuming. Furthermore, being through the education system in the UK, I was never taught about the wonderful, magical European discoverers of everything under the sun; I was simply taught the core subject. I really don’t know where people get this idea that Europeans dance about the place thinking they’re the greatest species of anything ever in the whole universe, but it’s not the reality at all and most people are just trying to live their lives the best they can today.