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TerranC said:

What does that have to do with what I wrote? Yef made a statement about (western) Europeans dominating (I assume militarily, culturally, and economically) the world over all others, not raping and pillaging and assimilating and other acts of suppression and destruction linked to colonialism persued by few nations.

Colonialism was running rampant long before the industrial revolution. That process merely increased the scale of it, along with nearly everything else.