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swedishbadgergirl · 3609 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask Hubski: Are you comfortable in your own skin?

Okay. I'm going to be mean now. Don't take it personally.

You're being really annoying in a way Americans often are that I can't stand. You are taking the most dramatic moments of American history and calling that the rule, and when I bring up moments from European history you are calling it the exception.

And no, it's really really not. Sweden played a part in the slave trade and owned colonies (kind of) in America before America became America.

America is a REALLY young country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_colonization_of_the_Americas

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user-inactivated · 3609 days ago · link ·

I looked back on the comments --- I'm a dick. Lemmie talk to you tomorrow you it. I need to go to bed.

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