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"Yankees not like it when someone threatens to annex your country against your will?"
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I'm mean...... If we're pointing fingers about the colonization and genocide of indigenous people, I don't know if the British really have room to make a lot of criticisms without a huge helping of hypocrisy.
Most of the deaths of indigenous people in North America happened before the concept of America even occurred. Some of the most horrific violence that ever occurred in North America was perpetrated during the King Phillips war by English colonialists.
The early colonists showed up in an essentially mad Max type situation. The natives who had been there were nearly wiped out, like 90-95% casualty rate from disease. Entire tribes and peoples just gone. Would've been a much different history had they not been basically wiped out.
I do always get a bit of a chuckle that the chunk of time when America was the British gets taught and treated as American as if the USA was already a thing.
It's very strange.
Yeap, a lot of people didn't really start seeing themselves as culturally American until the 1840s.