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Britannica was a way of saying, we sort of own the world and this is our view of the world. It has a really sort of grand name, doesn't it? The inside can be a Britannica. British exceptionalism, ultimate imperialism. We know everything and you listen to us. Absolutely pertained. I think probably until, you know, the loss of India,. They would see it as a loss of India. So this showed how the world wasn't yet connected in the way we now regard the world as one big connected space. This is from the French encyclopedia, talking about various people around the world. And this is some of the least offensive stuff: Greek women
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