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    Prozentsatz der Bevölkerung, die in ausgewählten Ländern Europas stolz auf ihre Kolonialgeschichte ist

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    2. Volaer on

      As Blackadder put it, Germany’s colonial empire existed only for a couple of decades and basically consisted of little more than a sausage factory near Tanganika. Not much to be proud of there I imagine.

      Belgium though 💀

    3. Choice_Sandwich2182 on

      As a Dutchie, I have to say I am appalled but not really surprised at our high percentage, especially considering the year it was asked(2019)

      My generation got a highly sanitized version of our colonial dutch history. For a long time I thought we were a relatively reasonable empire compared to some other European contemporaries.

      Then I started reading. Oh boy. According to P. Hagen our colonial wars of conquest cost the lives of 4 million Indonesians in the East Indies, not even counting the millions lost due to the cultivation system, slavery and forced labor.

      We were basically no better than Leopold II. Yes we even did the whippings and cutting of limbs. Until the 1930s mind you.

      „Luckily“ we don’t often get shit internationally for our past because people like us a lot better than say French or Belgians apparently(the Japan effect I suppose).

      Nowadays people here in the Netherlands know more about the past and that our whole „Politional actions“ was a bit of a euphemisms, but few people know about the severed hands and breasts and fingers etc. Even now its pretty sanized. In fact even Indonesians I met dont know the gory details of the Coolie Ordinances….

    6. Brisbanebill on

      I laughed a lot when I saw Portugal was not included. Angola and Mozambique?

    8. blewawei on

      As a Brit living in Spain, this is completely at odds with my perception of people’s opinions about their countries‘ empires. Spain basically has a national holiday about their empire and the right wing talk about it much more than the Conservatives do in the UK.

    11. slysmile on

      So half the dutch are assholes?

      edit: I’m afraid this comment was quite misunderstood. I simply don’t believe the map is accurate, and the question was supposed to reflect that belief via a ridiculous question. I’m not a native English speaker, so I probably fucked it up.

    12. Rinerino on

      Well, dies Germany’d also include theirb „other“ colonial project east?

    14. TeaLycan on

      None of them should be proud, but it’s baffling that Belgians are THAT much so. Do they simply not know, or not care, what King Leopold II did?

    16. Embarrassed-Split644 on

      How many hundreds of millions speak Portuguese worldwide? This is funny

    17. Deep_Contribution552 on

      Brits are like “It was rather morally dubious, but we *did* excel at the whole ‘colonialism’ bit”

    19. Wrack-Chore on

      Why is Russia never included in the conversation about colonialism? Just because the land is contiguous with its core territory?

    23. gwelfguy on

      The Dutch are relatively proud of their colonial history??? Weren’t they responsible for apartheid South Africa, or is there just a giant blind spot towards that?

      Same for the Brits. I’m sure they’re proud that they’ve projected their language and culture around the world, but the list of ills they’ve committed is unmatched.

    24. luiz_marques on

      The dutch are proud simply because they know little or almost nothing about their colonial history. Look into what they did during the occupations in northeastern Brazil against Luso-Brazilian Catholics, especially regarding the massacres of Cunhaú and Uruaçu carried out by calvinists in the service of the Dutch West India Company. And that’s without even mentioning Indonesia…

    29. FinsFan305 on

      They aren’t proud of it, but I bet they also aren’t complaining about it either.

    30. Dawo59 on

      Lowkey ima drop it as a Belgian. Dutch people really need to be taught more about their colonial past. Some things they write about their history are shocking at times. Like the fact gekoloniseerd is used as a funny meme says enough.

    31. Teshuwajah on

      Dutchman here: There are a lot of far-right people in the Netherlands proud of the atrocities we committed and it’s fucking sickening.

    33. bostanite on

      Mind you, in my village in the Netherlands there is a statue that commemorates the Resistance in WW II and AT THE SAME TIME WITH THE SAME PLAQUE the „fallen of the Politionele Acties“, which was a Dutch army force sent to Indonesia to slaughter the locals because they wanted independence.

    34. Young_Lochinvar on

      Missing Denmark and Russia (and Latvia, Malta and Sweden to get specific).

    37. Sick_and_destroyed on

      French are rather proud of their colonial past, but now it’s seen as nationalist to show it so people prefer to hide it.

    38. Cultural-Ad-8796 on

      Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Russia and Latvia are not included for unknown reasons.

    39. SignatureDefiant432 on

      I have sympathy for how the EU is getting treated by the US now. But once in a while I see maps/stats like this and realise how many people there that still cling onto a colonial past, and for a minute I question my sympathies.

      It should be zero throughout the whole map.

    46. mbex14 on

      The difference between the Netherlands and Belgium is startling. Post WW2 immigrants will no doubt be anti colonialism throughtout Europe

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