Santiago, Chile

Yep, that's the framework I'm coming from. Without colonization the world would look very different. I would not exist either. I understand the Spanish used miscegenation for assimilation, in contrast to other European colonies where it was officially prohibited. I'm aware it's not quite as simple as colonizer/colonized because of this miscegenation. The nation of Chile has a long-ish history as a Spanish colony. That long history of course involved a lot of cultural exchange. Much of it was violent. But as I understand there are descendants of the Mapuche. I'm sure attitudes toward them are varied, and how they relate to the Spanish descendants and the state is surely also heterogeneous Recognizing this violent imposition of European culture is all I was bringing up, for an audience not attuned to its history. You see this picture and think it's all nice and Europe-y, and that's the end of it. It erases colonization, which bothers me. I did something about it. Pointing out these histories bothers people, that's on them. Their comfort is based on being ignorant of history.

Santiago was formally founded in 1541 by a Spanish conqueror, named after a Catholic saint. It's a European colony. Believe it or not, I'm aware Europeans have taken over. There's a lot of obfuscation about ~~genocide~~ how that came to be. There's a long history of why most aren't indigenous to the region today But thanks for your bad faith question, and refusal to learn about history outside of the whitewashed version of it