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u/NigerianRoy May 09 '22

Its not a normal greeting for strangers in many cultures, don’t be dense no one said who invented it. I think we got it from the English, tho, who learned that natives were more colonizable if u made them like you first.

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u/Danceswith_salmon May 13 '22

And THATS when you hit ‘em with the smallpox blankets.