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Originally Posted by winny
It's unbelievable and somehow historically offensive that nowadays there's still people that highlight the bad done by the British Empire without considering all the good that was done...
That knife cuts both ways.
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erm no, there are NO examples of colonialism that brought any good to other civilisation, apart for this:
joking aside, if you
really believe that empires colonised for the spreading of good intentions and to export democracy, then you're as gullible as the supporters of the war to Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's merely commercial interest, and the few good things that might have been introduced unfortunately are no match for the bad that has been done.
One of my best friends work for a UN organisation in Malawi, and she tells me the most horrible stories, not only about the British dominion times, but about the psychological damage that they have done to the generations to come, showing in a reverence for the white man ("buana") as a superior creature, a semi-god that is never to be questioned or contradicted, but only obeyed to. She struggled to train her local team of collaborators cos they wouldn't just ever contradict her or give any input. Now if that isn't doing damage to a country, I don't know what it is..
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Bringing up stuff that happened a long long time ago is irrelevant. Where do we start? The Dutch? The Spanish? The Portuguese? The Itallians, The Russians, The Mongels? The Egyptians?
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again, wasn't me who brought this up man.