๐ arctotherium: So much bad Western policy wrt Third World is based on the extremely foolish idea that, if we're nice to them, they'll be nice to us. Bad theory of the mind; we think they're like us (or like Germans/Japanese, with which this basically worked postwar), and they just aren't.
๐ Oli Bosque: โMost Indians are unaware that U.S. farmers saved the lives of their parents and grandparents, thus making possible their own lives.โ
New world crops introduced by Europeans bred billions.
elilla&, europe penetrator
in reply to elilla&, europe penetrator • • •if I had my way every single scientific name of every plant would be changed to something based on indigenous languages.
if the native names were all lost (many such cases) ask an indigenous council to come up with new ones and pay them fucking money for the work
elilla&, europe penetrator
in reply to elilla&, europe penetrator • • •I think me paying the botanischer garten to have sprouts of a plant that comes from the same area as me is kind of a tiny echo of the fact that the plant that came from the same area as me is named after Prince fucking Joseph Franz Maria Anton Hubert Ignatz Fรผrst und Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck from fucking Neuss.
brb gonna go vandalise Schloss Dyck as a form of symbolic reparations
Rocketman
in reply to elilla&, europe penetrator • • •Violet Madder
in reply to Rocketman • • •And sprinkle native seeds everywhere.
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