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Almost forgot to look in our own backyard
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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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This is a very human centric definition of discovery.
Penguins had been living there for millenia beforehand.
We are humans...
I was mocking the attitude that something can't be discovered by one group of people if a different group of people already knew about it.
Columbus discovering the Americas is commonly called a "euro-centric definition of discovery". While conveniently ignoring that literally nobody in Europe knew the Americas existed.
That's fair, that can annoy me too occasionally.
Don't tell the Vikings I guess
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