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[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, it's much older than the US. It's a European invention, just as the US is fundamentally a product of European colonialism.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Sure. Point is, it's a product of colonialism and full-on anachronistic. Americans in particular keep trying to apply their modern categorizations, which both leftists and conservatives have fully internalized, to all places and times and it really doesn't work.