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Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by pessimizer on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:42AM (#11580325)
In the cases of America and the British, and Rome and the Greeks, this was explicitly true.

As for Europe, it's not a country and doesn't move as a unit. Different European countries were pioneers in imperialism, others were latecomers, others were mostly shut out and ended up doing more desperate, brutal invasions in less appealing places.

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Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by nihonde on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:27AM (#11580689)
There were so many peaks and valleys of European empires, it's easy to lump them into one. You're right, though——it's not fair to conflate Rome with Byzantium, Hapsburghs, Belgium, Netherlands, France, etc.
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