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Its baffling how western liberals assume that indigenous sovereignty is a western country issue. I was speaking to a few people about how Southeast Asia treats its indigenous population, gave context of the situation in Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines and Indonesia.

And theyre like 'oh wow, we didnt know that there were indigenous people there'

???

Do they think that I am indigenous because I was born in the Philippines and is Tagalog descent?

Answer: I am not. Im from an ethnic group called Tagalog, who became the main bourgeois after the colonists left. We think we represent the whole nation and all policies are based on 'Imperial Tagalog' logic. Hell, the national language is Filipino which is Tagalog-based. We have 100+ indigenous groups in the Philippines.

Do they think brown people will NOT do anything bad on their indigenous population? When decolonisation was reduced to the replacement of one bourgeoisie with another?

Do people not read history books? What