#Colonised

Sarah Owen MP

SarahOwen_

THREAD: I thought hard before posting this because knee-jerk reactions help no one, but as the daughter of a Malaysian immigrant this is personal.The idea of ‘indigenous people’ of Britain

Kavaeric

Kavaeric

I want to comment on this as another Japanese person because Japanese culture is an odd bird when it comes to the matter of cultural appropriationhttps://twitter.com/mosspond_/status/1330169167161544705 When talking about cultural

Lo (they/them)

lo_the_lynx

Today is the Sámi national day! For those who don’t know, the Sámi people are an indigenous people whose land, Sápmi, have been settled and colonised by Sweden, Norway, Finland,

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt

nadinebh_

1/ Not all Jews have “white” skin And there is a difference between white skin and “whiteness” The idea of “black” and “white” was coined during the colonial period to

Alexander Davidson

alex_davidson82

One of the things that the western left has failed to understand is how, thanks to combined and uneven development, capitalism emerges in different nations. This failure lies rooted in

Helen Rogers

helenrogers19c

Just starting now! Cockatoo Island is in Sydney Harbour and set up as convict islandhttps://twitter.com/katyaroscoe/status/1298933750055796736 Island visible from Sydney so convicts on display. On view to civilisation but not able

Nish D.

acaciathorns

Why are white people so uncomfortable whenever their true histories are told? National Trust, Scottish railways networks, Liverpool, etc all built on the backs of slaves and through genocide via

Shaun McBride

KernowShaun

Thread.Found an FT article from 2008 that I was featured in about Cornish identity. No wonder we're confused about our identity when English writers say things like this (a breakdown):https://www.ft.com/content/e7b328fa-c1d2-11dd-a350-0

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

I am not sure about the details of the Priti Patel case, but I do think there is a cultural divide over the nature of 'bullying'. Like many things, the

Rob Bailey, old-timey astrologer

oldschoolastro

On January 26 there’s a public holiday called Australia Day. It marks the date when the colonisation of Australia began (January 26 1788). It fucks me up that astrologers use

Chris Kirby-Lambert 🇪🇺

CKirbyLambert

1/5 Putting the finishing touches to a report on an invertebrate survey of a single well-structured ex-agricultural field on The Great Fen Project over summer 2020. The site produced an

Pilar Gomez FBPE #charactermatters

redalphababe

1. I wonder why a young girl not even off the starting blocks in the world of work worries about tax levels instead of thinking about what she wants to

Yashasvī Pratāp

yashasvipratap

It is interesting how Marathi School Historians like D.R. Bhandarkar bend over backwards in trying to reinforce the claim that there are no Kshatriyas, at least not real.Regional belief bias

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

I'd rather be deeply embedded in 1 culture & language, which is my own & thereby provides v strong roots, than have a passing relationship with several different cultures, or

🇦🇴 Rainha Nzinga 🇦🇴

vic_torina

We, Angolans don’t speak Portuguese because we want to, we speak Portuguese because we were forced to. The Portuguese would beat or kill Angolans who spoke Bantu languages. It got

CB_Arolygu / RC_Survey

RC_Survey

Tintern Abbey was the 1st Cistercian monastery in Wales, founded 1131 by Walter fitzRichard of Clare. Colonised by a group of monks from the mother house at l’Aumone, the construction

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