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Industrialization, Imperialism and Colonization

Length: 3 min.

Actor Cliff Curtis offers the perspective that the trinity of industrialization, imperialism and colonialism served an important function by linking humanity closely together. This line of imperialist development has reached its fulfillment, however, and in order to restore balance, we must now adopt an indigenous perspective of belonging to the planet, not vice-versa.

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