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Vampire [any]@hexbear.net to History@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

When the Germans colonised Tanzania in the 1880s, they made Kiswahili the administrative language because they feared that if the Tanzanians learned German they'd read Marx

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When the Germans colonised Tanzania in the 1880s, they made Kiswahili the administrative language because they feared that if the Tanzanians learned German they'd read Marx

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Vampire [any]@hexbear.net to History@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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    Fascists gonna fascist

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    Well that’s interesting, it’s usually the other way around, suppressing the local language and creating a local educated administrative class to further divide up the locals

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    germany-cool

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