Look at colonialism, for example. Yes, by our contemporary standards it seems like nasty business but when you also factor in the universality of it AT THAT TIME (the Xhosa encroachment into Khoikhoi and San Territory, Shaka Zulu's bloody march south east of the Drakensberg Mountains, etc.) and that a lot of the recipients of EUROPEAN colonialism benefited immensely from it (the provision of material requisites to establish self-government and in many cases to prevent extinction) you start to get some perspective and don't we need a bit of that these days?
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