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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by dragonwriter on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:15PM (#15571344)
> While people displaced by a colony are obviously disadvantaged, the colony itself and its residents are not.

I think you may be confusing the pattern of colonization in British North America with colonization more generally; the pattern elsewhere was more often of subordination to an imported elite rather than displacement.

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by ben_w on Friday October 27, 2017 @05:07PM (#15572233)
Good answer, but you’ve made me realise I made an even deeper error — I was thinking like Civilization: cities as the fundamental unit, not the productive capacity of the nearby land they control.
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