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Local people: what, that? Yeah we've known that was there since always. It's right over there. Have fun.
Some rich white dude:
Some rich white dude: ᶦ ᵈᶦˢᶜᵒᵛᵉʳᵉᵈ ᵗʰᶦˢ
@tan archaeology was invented by white people
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@packbat Thanks for both the captions and wiki excerpt!
@tan glad to be of service!
@tan colonizers don't know what discovered means
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And here I was thinking ms and mr smith discovered the sight in 2015 on their holidays
@tan "Discovered" by western people, while the local population knew about it for a while.
@phildobangnz yeah! There's a wiki excerpt by someone in the replies of the toot and like, there was someone living there and farming on the terrace things already lmao
@tan
Some day writers will realize that discover =\= "made aware of"
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AFP can discover my ass
According to the mainstream economical explanation:
Added value. These were only ruins of no value until Mr. Bingham "introduced them" to the western market. Now they are attractions.
Example: A Western PR intern earns more than a worker at the luxury automobile plant in the East. It is said because the intern adds more value to the product with fetching coffee than the worker with welding. 👨🏭💸👩💼
Is the added value hypothesis incorrect? I don't think so. Merely overly simplistic.
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@OCRbot Oof.
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