Part of the answer lies in the changing complexion of the European continent since the end of the Second World War. At that time, the nations of Europe were ethnically homogenous, which is to say that, with rare exceptions, only white people lived there. The altered demography of the twenty-first century, with waves of immigration from Africa and Asia, has caused us to treat with sensitivity, and attempt to share the perspective of, the various minorities who suffered under colonial systems and to try and see the world from their point of view, rather than merely our own. In the process
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