As you kept referring to “Chinese homes”, “Chinese tourist”, etc., I simply replied to your less-than-well thought out comment, and refrained from trying to smear you as racist or ignorant, only because you did not specify the ethnicity of the people you were talking about. (I’d call you both for different reasons, but not for this.)

In your case it would have made sense to specify the ethnicity, as you were talking about specific persons. I was talking about a culture, referred to in the vernacular as “Chinese”, which is not meant a disrespect. It remains an open question whether you were, in fact, disrespectful when doing the same, while trying to “educate” me about the issue. (Which does make you a hypocrite to say the least.) But this is not even the point. Being self-righteous is one thing, being ignorant is quite another.

Let’s start with reading comprehension: Which part of the unusually difficult phrase “colonise the planet” was too hard to understand?

Let me help you out, here’s the first part:”colonise”: See, conquering neighbouring countries/territories is something that happened all through history, basically everywhere, but not all of such conquests were, in fact, colonisation. I suggest you use Google and history books to get a sense of what colonisation
means, and how it differs form e.g. expansion, and/or absorbing other ethnicities (which often follows expansion).

Colonisation is different. The people will not be “absorbed” (culturally), although certain cultural norms (mostly religion) will often be forced on the population, they will always be seen as second-grade, and be discriminated against, the resources robbed and shipped back to the colonial bases. Racism is almost a “must”. The coloniser will always regard the colonised as inferior.

This is not to say expansion is positive, simply that it is different. And while China’s actions in Taiwan and Tibet are questionable, their impact is nowhere near e.g. British colonialism, which brings us to the second half of that incredibly difficult phrase:

“The planet”. It means global impact. You know, it’s sort of the opposite of “local”. It’s not just about a neighbouring country (Tibet), or an obscure ethnic group you are using to justify some point you fail to make. It means something affecting (more or less) the whole world as we know it, like European colonisation did, and does today still.

The Global impact of anything done to a single ethnic group or country is usually minimal. The global impact of something done to entire continents (e.g. robbing Africa) are massive. And as to your question: YES. Today. It still goes on. If you don’t like to acknowledge that, that is because you are a racist prick playing the victim.

An no, nobody said white people are only ever the bad guys, but that what we are saying might just be beyond your comprehension. I know, it must difficult to understand anything beyond the very obvious and simple narratives you keep hearing from within your bubble. Thinking is hard, when you’re not used to it, isn’t it?