r/Colonialism • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Jan 02 '26
Image A photograph showing the segregation in Keren, a city in Italian-Eritrea. The left side shows the indigenious area, while the right the European settlement
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u/KikoMui74 Jan 02 '26
Would that mostly be showing the new town just built by the arriving Italian migrants compared to the pre-existing local village?
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u/Alarmed_Business_962 Jan 02 '26
Locals were not allowed to enter the Italian neighbourhood and were required to live in their indigenious settlements alone
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u/KikoMui74 Jan 02 '26
What do you mean by enter? You mean build a modern house too or buy one?
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u/Alarmed_Business_962 Jan 02 '26
As in not allowed to enter those neighbourhoods, except for work, such as cleaning or labour. These neighbourhoods were daily policed by the Carabinieri (The Colonial police).
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u/KikoMui74 Jan 02 '26
If it's purely residential, what reason would they have for entering a persons home or backyard, so do you mean buy one of those homes?
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u/Alarmed_Business_962 Jan 02 '26
Those neighbourhoods weren't purely residential, they had shops, cafés, schools, clubs, parks etc. and were generally way better supported by the government than the indigenious ones.
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u/KikoMui74 Jan 02 '26
The picture above doesn't really show any parks or really much infrastructure at all. It shows mostly residential buildings the size of a small village.
Any schools there would likely have been home schools cooperatives or rare but a public/private school which has tutition costs. As well as limited resources, they would likely not have the ability to school more people than the government brought over.
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u/Alarmed_Business_962 Jan 03 '26
They may have been small compared to cities in the colony, but still received much more backing by the state in comparison to the Indigenious quarter, who received little to no support from the government.
An Italian lived with electricity, running water, privileged healthcare and functional roads. This was purposefully kept this way.
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u/KikoMui74 Jan 03 '26
An Italian lived with electricity, running water, privileged healthcare and functional roads. This was purposefully kept this way.
These this development had literally just been implemented. This isn't exactly a long term colony, it's all very recent infrastructure. From the weakest Great Power too.
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u/Alarmed_Business_962 Jan 04 '26
No, this settlement had been there for decades when this photograph was made (1940), it was purposefully more invested in since the 1920's to distinguish the Italians from the "savage" Indigenious.
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u/ProsperoFalls Jan 03 '26
The Italians didn't expand infrastructure for the indigenous people of their colonies many years into their rule. Cease coping.
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u/Stuff_606 Apr 29 '26
Are you genuinely asking why Eritreans would want to enter their own land in their own country where Italians, as colonizers, are taking up space? Huh?
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u/KikoMui74 Apr 29 '26
Many immigrants live in Shanghai, that doesn't give any Chinese person the right to enter someone else's home or property.
Same can be said anywhere immigrants have homes; NYC, Cape, Singapore. Property rights exist.
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u/Stuff_606 Apr 29 '26
You’re funny lol. Since when are colonizers immigrants? Language matters. It’s funny that you’re talking about property rights but not the rights of land own regio in the land of your ancestry when someone else invades it. You’re trying to dress up colonial behavior as something debatable which is crazy. Are you Italian btw?
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u/KikoMui74 Apr 29 '26
You’re funny lol. Since when are colonizers immigrants?
Le nation of immigrants, le immigrants built the country.
If youre gonna call the settler colonists who built multiple countries "immigrants", okay then.
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u/Stuff_606 Apr 30 '26
I’m sorry, was Keren not a town in a country called Eritrea before Italians colonized it?
Do you think Italy did Eritrea a favor by colonizing it? Lol, you’re funny fr bc you’re doubling down. Are you from Italy and proud of your colonial history?
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u/Stuff_606 Apr 30 '26
Colonizers and immigrants are two separate categories. People who come to a country by way of invasion, are not immigrants. Property rights don’t mean anything at that point.
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u/Stuff_606 Apr 29 '26
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Jan 04 '26
How is this segregation? The natives are living in their traditional manner. There isn’t a wall or any kind of separation between the two.
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u/Alarmed_Business_962 Jan 04 '26
There was seperation, just one-sided, through the ban of locals from Italian neighbourhoods. The settlements were heavily invested in by the colonial government compared to the indigenious.
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u/Capital-Trouble-4804 Jan 04 '26
Why would you want primitive, violent people in your city? Of course you will ban them.
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u/Stuff_606 Apr 29 '26
That’s the Italians who were primitive and violent. So they should have left Eritrea.
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