Conquerors of many ethnicities imposed shit on the subjugated. Cf. Koreans under the Japanese Empire. And marginal white-Europeans like Irish, Sicilians, and Slavs, depicted as apes in ‘cultured’ media, didn’t benefit like the ruling classes.
Mention was made of non-whites being forced at gunpoint to wear Euro-style clothes. The Mesoamerican experience differed – Indios were forced to wear ‘ethnic’ uniform outfits such as patterned huipiles to identify their village. If Euro-folks now wear Mayan garb, which culture are they appropriating?
