I wasn't trying to rebuke you, just maybe formulating things in a more mundane way. It doesn't change the underlying point, certainly about language (Mozambique was a portuguese holding tho). That science, and especially social or human ones, went hand in hand with imperialism or colonisation (whatever you want to call the impulse) has been true at least as far back as the great maritime expeditions in the 18th century which helped scientists formulate most of the basis for racism (very much "a feature, not a bug" situation at the time contrary to the way we tend to phrase it today as an unfortunate, perverse phase).
Anyway there's no doubt that colonization, for ill and good, had a very deep influence on colonizing powers that last beyond the end of their dominion and the discardment of the whole White Man's burden notions.
