Just to clarify,not in all cases. More likely it benefited a select few in the colonized country
I agree
No, i can't think of any. Even singapore used to be a colony of britain
Not only things like gold and silver. But unfortunately, the people themselves were "exported" as slave labor.
@DocMcStuffins and
@User#8628 , i'm not condoning the colonizers. but i'm not exactly against them either. Maybe what I'm trying to say is it could have been worse (like what happened to the native americans in the US). look, i'm no expert about the history of the philippines, but from what i have read they were mostly farmers and fishermen with a lot of tribal warfare (they also had a caste system back then) thrown in before the spaniards came. more or less, made things more systematic.
Yes there were massive trade-offs, like losing their own system of writing and most of their history before the spaniards came (the spaniards burned a lot of books back then).
Just to reiterate, I'm no expert with the subject herein and I don't completely condone the colonizers...
let us just say that I know how it feels to be an outcast. that even if you have best possible qualifications, and you are of the "wrong" color and from the "wrong" country, people will not treat you as an equal.