Colonization was begun by white Europeans in 1492 and was the first great imperial projection of western norms into the so called “third world”. While western imperialism is often seen as one of the most egregious and well known forms of imperialism, it was certainly not the earliest.



For tens of thousands of years, humans have been foisting their desires for dominance upon animals. The most horrifying form of this was Domestication. In Domestication, humans slowly, over decades and centuries, changed the natural genetic identity of animals to suit humans, shaping animals in the image of humanity and eroding their naturally self-existent state. This is the first and ultimate form of cultural appropriation: the systematic brainwashing and genetic cleansing of entire species.