Re:Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class
by douche on Sunday November 08, 2015 @06:48PM
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The history of mankind is a long tapestry of colonization.
If we accept that Homo Sapiens expanded out of Africa, into the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and then across the Bering land bridge into North America, and eventually down into South America, that is all a series of colonization events. As is Polynesian expansion throughout the South Pacific. As is the series of invasions that rocked the Mediterranean world around 1200 BCE, or the expansions of the Celtic culture in Iron Age Europe, or the Classic Greek diaspora, or the migrations of the Goths, Vandals, Huns, Lombards, and others in that era. The colonization of the Yangtze valley and Guangdong by the northern Han Chinese culture. The Slavic migrations into eastern Europe and the Balkans. The migrations of the Turks, Muslim Arabs, and Mongols. The Romans who colonized Celtic Britain, who were colonized by the Saxons, Angles and Jutes, who were colonized by Danes and other Norse, who were colonized by the Franco-Normans. The Irish colonized Scotland, and were in turn colonized in a series of waves by England.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, you have the Bantu expansion[1], which displaced or assimilated other pre-existing cultures.
If we accept that Homo Sapiens expanded out of Africa, into the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and then across the Bering land bridge into North America, and eventually down into South America, that is all a series of colonization events. As is Polynesian expansion throughout the South Pacific. As is the series of invasions that rocked the Mediterranean world around 1200 BCE, or the expansions of the Celtic culture in Iron Age Europe, or the Classic Greek diaspora, or the migrations of the Goths, Vandals, Huns, Lombards, and others in that era. The colonization of the Yangtze valley and Guangdong by the northern Han Chinese culture. The Slavic migrations into eastern Europe and the Balkans. The migrations of the Turks, Muslim Arabs, and Mongols. The Romans who colonized Celtic Britain, who were colonized by the Saxons, Angles and Jutes, who were colonized by Danes and other Norse, who were colonized by the Franco-Normans. The Irish colonized Scotland, and were in turn colonized in a series of waves by England.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, you have the Bantu expansion[1], which displaced or assimilated other pre-existing cultures.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_expansion