[gsky]

California wasn't colonised but india was for 200 years by Europeans

[harvey9]

How would you describe the arrival of people from Europe and elsewhere into what is now California?

[gsky]

I meant extraction of resources by Europeans for 200 years. C

[wtcactus]

And they managed to end slavery and the caste system while they were there (that unfortunately came back as soon as India got independent again).

No need to thank the “Europeans”. You’re welcome.

[leosanchez]

> And they managed to end slavery and the caste system while they were there (that unfortunately came back as soon as India got independent again).

1. Did they really end slavery if you rename it to something else? [0]

2. You didn't end caste system. If anything you made it more rigid

> No need to thank the “Europeans”. You’re welcome.

Thank you for all the massacres and famines Europeans. [1] [2]

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_indenture_system

[1]. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/12/britai...

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

I didn't even scrape the surface of the atrocities you did.

[gsky]

Slavery by whom? Whites and Muslims?

[wtcactus]

No, by Indians.

That’s why, still today, India is the country with the most slaves in the world, continuing their long tradition of the practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_India

[krapp]

Who do you think named it "California?" It sure wasn't the natives.

[lurk2]

> California wasn't colonised

Yes it was.