Afrikaner friend is posting about how families leaving South Africa for the USA look like evil rednecks and obviously stupid. Other friends are chiming in how Trump is sending away Afghanistan refugees and that they're the wrong color, and that's why.
Then the English friends are posting about how Afghanistan being a terrible place and sending people back is a terrible thing. Meanwhile South Africa is a great place and no evil horrible thing is happening.
It's been going like this all day.
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What you're describing is still a form of conquest. Particularly because it was an intentional effort by Britain to subjugate all of India, including parts that were owned by the Portuguese. Whenever the Portuguese said "No", because they knew what the British were doing, the Brits had no problem blowing their forts and garrisons to hell. The 'soft' conquest of India was still going to be backed up with massive military force if the Brits didn't get their way, but since the British never had a million man army prior to WW1, it wasn't reasonable to come in and burn everything. They had to conquer in a more subversive way.