dutch wasn’t originally all cutesy like “weer petten de leetel raabbet”, but they changed it so they could i’m-just-a-little-guy their way out of being in trouble for the east india company
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Perfectly round bald man the colour of old brick in a stained England shirt yelling about racial superiority and hallucinating he's some sort of pith helmet wearing redcoat
Not Portugal, though, they are so original gangsta that in 1494 they divided up the whole round world between themselves and Spain.
That's why Brazil speaks Portuguese and the rest of the New World was Spain's imperialist playground for a minute there.
Oh no, those three are small but mighty. The Portuguese basically invented colonialism and the Dutch basically invented capitalism. In the end, they just lacked the population numbers to push it as far as England, France, and Spain.
Afrikaans was created by the slaves who worked in the kitchens of the Dutch colonisers in what is known as Cape Town today. It was known as 'Cape Dutch' before being widely spoken & taken by the descendants of those colonisers. Just another thing POC created & was stolen by the white man.
To be fair, they realized quite early on that they didn't have the stomach for global imperialism on the level of France and England. They were first but were happy just being businessmen and not genocidal missionary conquerors.
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Ow god somebody found the Raymond Westerling wikipage, here we go again.
Small penised giant?
That's why Brazil speaks Portuguese and the rest of the New World was Spain's imperialist playground for a minute there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
Roughly what my old landlord said while looking out the window.