Problems stemming from colonisation was thrusting the liberal ideals onto the colonised. Many people in the enlightenment periods in Europe thought that they had unearthed the world's secret and spread liberalism throughout the world. This concept of shared values, or to put it bluntly, nationalism, believes people have shared values. So it was pitting white Europeans against the significant ''other''. It was brutal systemic colonisation of Africa, America and the rest of the world, and what the colonisers left behind was boundaries, many that don't match up with the colonised. They may not be a nation, but merely a collection of a tribal, linguistic or ethnic group. They weren't obedient nations. Liberalism manifests itself into freedom, and the ultimate freedom is to discriminate against others. To pit yourself higher than others. Racism.
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