Do you know what colonizers do? They kill, rape, and kidnap to spread their territory, claiming lands as their own without regard for the people who live there.
The reason my skin is white in a Latin American country is because colonizers raped my ancestors and now, as a consequence, there was a mixing of races that to this day still have pyramids of power.
This white skin I have represents violence and oppression, but in the eyes of the world, it is beautiful and hegemonic, worthy of being seen and respected.
This white skin gives me privileges, because I look like my colonizers, and yet, because of my origin, people still won't see me as an equal, because they consider my blood to be stained with indigenous blood.
Do you know what colonizers don't do? They don't restore freedom in their colonies and listen to the people who live there, fulfilling their desire to continue living there since they have formed families.
Do you know what colonizers don't do? They don't rebel against the empire that benefits them to join a group against their own family to overthrow it.
Do you know what colonizers don't do? They don't establish cities where the victims of their Nation's actions can live in harmony and find refuge, nor do they spend 60 years governing to maintain that harmony, renouncing the throne of their own free will to give it to their daughter, A WOMAN, whom they raised especially to follow in their footsteps and continue the peace.
And especially, they don't reboot an entire education system to mold it in such a way that future generations understand that their nation did something horrible and that they should NOT follow in those footsteps, without mincing words, without censorship, just the truth.
And this last paragraph I wrote is so special to me because it's something my colonizers haven't done to this day, almost 200 years after my country declared independence. Because my colonizers believe they did nothing wrong and even deny it, saying their country was good and fair to mine, to the rest of the Latin American countries, and they believe colonization was a farce, even though there are still lingering effects from it in their minds, because they see us as inferior, poor, without culture or education; they think they did us a favor.
Something that doesn't happen in the Fire Nation after Zuko's rule, because he did such an EXCELLENT job that it only took him less than 60 years to compensate for those acts, and it is reflected in his people, because the citizens of the Fire Nation do not consider themselves superior, nor do they deny what was committed and they live in harmony with those who were once their subordinates.
Something my colonizers have not been able to achieve in 216 years.
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