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White version of discovery.
I have discovered this place! But we live here already. Nope, I'm the first to discover it!
Discovery is relative to perspective of the explorer, it is not a characteristic of what is explored. A person can be an explorer, a group, a society, a people can be the explorer on behalf of the group. All of humanity was not the group those explorers were exploring on behalf of.
You have to have some kind of racist perspective in you to claim that it is a white person issue. It is absolutely certain that individuals and groups had, and continue to have, similar concepts of discovery on behalf of their people or themselves, even if other people already knew of a thing. "Look what I found." Is literally that. If someone else knew about the thing, was it actually found since it wasn't really lost if anyone else knew already?
That said, from a perspective relative to humanity as a whole, no, white people didn't discover many things first, but it's relative to themselves and the people who learn of it from them. White people discovered the Americas for themselves and for most of the rest of the world. While First Nations were the first to make the discovery, that knowledge not being shared means others had to discover it as well. White people discovered the Americas and shared that knowledge with the rest of humanity so while not the first to discover the Americans they were the only ones who did who informed the rest of humanity, meaning they discovered it on behalf of most human beings and in doing so, get a relatively larger amount of credit for it. They absolutely did discover the Americas, they just weren't the first humans to do so.
No white people discovered the Americas and shared it with other white people not humanity. I'm pretty sure the millions of indigenous people that lived here also counts as humanity and they didn't share it with any of the other people that are had already been visiting the Americas such as the Asian culture and hell even the Russian culture and the Nordic culture themselves had already been visiting the Americas far before Columbus and any of his idiotic people showed up here.
And no you don't have to have any sort of racist belief to understand that these idiots were going through and doing everything that they were doing as far as taking the land saying that it's theirs and saying that they discovered it. You just have to have a slight understanding of exactly how history has played out.
Yes they did. They shared their discovery of the Americas with other Europeans, which shared it with Europe, Europe shared it with the Middle East, African and Asia, which comprises the vast majority of humanity.
But the world didn't learn it from them. The majority of humanity learned it after colonial Europe discovered it, from Europeans sharing the knowledge.
This was not the racism I was referencing now was it? Do you not understand or are you intentionally being dishonest?
The discovery of something can happen more than once as it's a relationship between the observer and the thing, not between the thing and every observer.
OMG. Someone here is coping hard. Give it up dude.
You know what coping looks like? Dismissing arguments by labeling them as coping.
Dunno. If i see my neighbor fucking cats i think i have made some sort of discovery, even if my neighbor clearly knew before me what he is doing.
What a terrible day to be literate.
But you cant deny the truth behind the words.
Watching somebody fuck a cat is far different than steping on their yard and claiming that it's yours and that you discovered it when somebody else clearly lives there.
Bet this morning when you woke up, you did not think youd write those words in that order today.
It does bring up the point that "discovery" can also be a relative term.
Astronomer: I have discovered a kuiper belt object that no one has ever seen or detected before.
Archaeologist: I have discovered a chamber in the Great Pyramid that, while built by humans who could read and write, nobody has known about since the invention of the saddle.
CIA goon: I have figured out what these two currently living people are talking about.
Here's a fun one: Columbus is also credited with discovering the concept of magnetic declination (the difference between true and magnetic North.) In his logs, he noted that his compass had become somewhat misaligned with the North star. He was the first Western European to write about this, but it had been known since antiquity by those sailing the Indian ocean. But none of that was done by people who wrote in the Latin alphabet.