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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (45 children)

Can someone show me on a map where "the west" starts?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It's less a geographical or hemispheric distinction, and more a political one.

This page on imperial core is good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Technically, Australian's aren't colonisers; they're victims of British colonisation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I presume whenever u say american u always mean amerindians and never anglo-americans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

You're not making the point you think you are.

I understand the implications of both.

I don't truly call Australian Aboriginals "Australians", I was being facetious.

Also, I call them "Native Americans".

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