Colonialism and genocide

These natural hierarchies were reinforced by progressives such as Marquis de Condorcet, a French mathematician, who believed that slaves were savages due to their lack of modern practices, despite the fact that he advocated the abolition of slavery.

Typically, the people who are subjected to colonizing practices are portrayed as lacking modernity, because they and the colonialists do not have the same level of education or technology.

Years later, the term was unanimously accepted by the United Nations and it was defined as an internationally illegal practice as a part of Resolution 96 in 1946.

The instance of California references the colonization and genocide of indigenous tribes by European Americans during the gold rush period.

"[19] Noam Chomsky has considered settler colonialism to be the most vicious form of imperialism, and describes the lack of self-awareness of the genocide by some Americans.

[20][21][22][23] Pulitzer Prize winning historian Bernard Baylin has said that the Dutch and English conquests were just as brutal as those of the Spanish and Portuguese, in certain places and in certain times "genocidal".

[26] David Stannard historian and professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii analyzed the genocidal process in two cases of colonization.

[31] Martin Shaw has argued that in a colonial context: "each side shattered the opposing civilian population while pursuing military goals.