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How to treat the good and evil of colonial expansion
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The vast past constitutes dusty history. We dusted off the surface and saw people and things as if it were yesterday. Only by staying out of it and examining them without subjective feelings can we truly understand history. Everyone and everything have their own reasons, the operation of the universe has its own laws, and the operation of society has its own social customs. Only by breaking through the traditional inertia thinking and looking at the past objectively can we truly return history to its true colors.

Regarding the merits and demerits of this controversial colonial expansion, we might as well switch to Europe, 17 and 18 century Europe. The balance of history has completely tilted towards this continent in this century. The construction of modern political system, the enlightenment of the Enlightenment, the development of capitalist economy and the ambitious bourgeoisie all make this continent full of vitality. In the economic field, the capitalist economy is constantly looking for the conditions needed for its own development in the mainland, and it is constantly expanding as nutrition. But for the capitalist economy with strong vitality, the mainland is so small. Driven by instinct, he turned his eyes to the wider world, and he wanted to seek everything for his own use in this world of his own. We saw the continuous colonial expansion, and all European countries joined in and fought constantly, and finally achieved the great empire-Britain. The buds of the past have grown into towering trees. In this process, he constantly greedily absorbed nutrition. In order to survive and develop, in that era of free competition, you didn't try to survive. Your own country took your place and lived for you. Humans, big and small, have come from the long river of history, and every progress is very difficult and has paid a heavy price. We have seen the price paid by Asia, Africa and Latin America, the price paid by our nation and the unbearable weight of our feelings. But this is history, past history, present history and future history.

We should look at this colonial history from the perspective of human progress. There is no doubt that the opening of new air routes has linked mankind together, and the fate of mankind and the country has changed. Colonial expansion gradually formed the world market. On this platform, human relations have become closer. Before and after the industrial revolution, the western colonists expanded to the world by relying on their advanced politics, economy and culture, but this expansion process also improved the productivity of the world and brought the whole world into modern history.

Of course, we should also look at the harm that colonialism has brought to the world and the endless disasters that it has brought to simple tribes, kind people and countries. The colonists should repent for this.