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Originally Posted by Nisses
Dippin: major colonizers had nothing to do with if they were early organised as a nation state. In fact Belgium didn't exist till 1830. Well into colonisation already.
Major colonizers had more to do with if they had a good naval force.
As far as the comic goes: it's definitly racist, it definitly should be kept in sight, to remember what was.
If fact, Hergé himself underwent a change in his views after a while. He didn't call for a ban on his own work.
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And good naval forces depended on a nation state. There is a reason Portugal was so crucial in naval explorations, and that is that they were one of the first nation states around. It takes a nation state to organize the systematic financing and organizing of a naval fleet.
Nation states were crucial for colonization. Even your example, Belgium only started with colonization after being organized as a nation state. It stands to reason that the earliest a territory organized itself as a nation, the bigger the headstart in colonization (and it's interesting to note the impact that colonization and imperialism had on WWI and the alliances formed then). Portugal, Spain, France and England were the main colonizers, and all organized as nation states before 1500.