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The entire world had open borders until ww1
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Anonymous 1d

People have migrated for millions of years, but obviously when it happens in the 21st century it’s suddenly some terrible thing

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Anonymous 1d

War to end all wars

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Anonymous 1d

Not in all cases, Japan and Paraguay are the first to come to mind

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Anonymous 1d

People didn’t rly have the ability to leave their homeland until modern technology

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

Doesn’t

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Japan used to be a very evil country

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

Paraguay was wild back in the 1800s. They made it illegal for white people to marry other white people

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Anonymous replying to -> landtrust 1d

Ppl would just pack up all their shit put it on a cart and walk

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Anonymous replying to -> landtrust 1d

Your ancestors left Africa like 90k years ago

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Anonymous replying to -> landtrust 1d

*Assuming you’re not 100% African descent

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

I mean in a way landtrust isn’t entirely wrong? In the past, open borders was enabled by two things: the difficulty of long distance travel, and many immigration destinations being settler states who wanted immigrants to fill frontier lands. People moved, but it’s so much easier and affordable now than it once was.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

It was a much slower process at the time sure, less people could decide to pack up and move across the world. But it was still incredibly common. Like Celtic peoples were a majority in Western Europe, before being driven to just the British isles. Finns and Hungarians came from eastern Russia. Russia became controlled by the Norse, Bulgaria by Turkic peoples, the pacific was mostly colonized by Polynesians/Melanesians by hopping from island to island.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

What we consider to be the “homeland” of pretty much any group of people in modern times would have been populated by a completely different culture group 5,000 years ago. The ones that have remained had been heavily altered by other groups migrating there anyway

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

Yeah but those migrations are still much slower and over shorter distances. Even when we entered the 1700s and 1800s and people started taking ships across the world, it was still a much more difficult journey. The mobility for the average person has increased so much.

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