>> you can thank the White Colonialists and their arbitrary lines drawn on the map for that.
Er... Berlin conference, 1884, European imperialist nations (with Prussia the pushy newcomer) carving up the world among themselves. First came explorers, then missionaries, then colonists. The colonists went because they had protection from their mother countries, so to speak.
Of course those lines have caused a lot of trouble. But history is made of trouble. There would have been trouble in any case. The thing that's worrying now is the end of history, this global crap. It's a radical change of scale, very threatening to human beings looks like. But then the world always did look like that. Fingers crossed eh?
God I need a drink...
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