And some of those Arseholes are proud of the British Empire and lament the good old days. want to be an Empire again. Frick the British establishment. Edit: typo

I'm American and I'm ashamed of ours too. That's how we do better, not forgetting, always keeping our eyes, ears, hearts and minds open.

Also UK, totally agree. Empire did terrible things and we are still paying the price.

Unless we are in a third world country, MOST of our countries were guilty of this colonialism and hideous treatment - the Brits, the French, the Belgians, the Dutch, the Spanish, the Portugese - you name them, they had a piece of another country somewhere. We are now a bit more cognizant of our ancestors' errors, but we can't apologize or make reparations for something we, in this generation, didn't do, and wouldn't do.

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But they were the ancestors. We can't do anything about them. So there's no need to be sorry for their deeds

And colonialism didn’t end, we just stopped physically controlling our colonies, in favor of economic colonialism

You better preach!!!

Then go back to Europe you racist f**k and live with whitey where you belong

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Yeah, because uncolored places are so much better, so much less violence and horrible things and corruption... Get off your self-righteous high-horse.

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Should have killed ourselves, let the Neanderthals inherit the Earth!

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Cope Nikki pie, maybe make me a sandwich

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We didn't colonize, we conquered. And we did it well

Ugh give your head a shake. I'm anglo Indian too. Don't forget the Brits also tied Indians to their cannons. Not to mention mass executions. If you are anglo it's not because the Brits encouraged it. They didn't care if they f**ked brown women, but don't marry them. My dad was looked down upon for marrying my mom (who is Portuguese/Indian) even though she is from a much more wealthy family. Sure they poured money in, but not to help the poor, but only to advance their exploits.

What have the Romans ever done for us????

You think that India lacked culture before British came? What billions you are talking about? Read history properly. They made institutions not to empower Indians, but to make it easy to transport the loot and get some locals to do the menial administration jobs. What about the trillions they looted. Oh no.. what did I just do? Just gave a white person a mirror to look at, which apparently cracked the minute he looked at it. Read history properly. Brits came to India in 1600s when India was at its peak of economic growth. When they left India, they perpetrated a disaster which south east Asia still reels in. So shut your trap and go back to the same hole you came out of.

So they "poured billions into India" just because they are helping and kind like that? It was very, very profitable for them. And saying "they fought for their trading rights" makes it sound like they are entitled to anything while they were strangers brutally attacking, exploiting and and controlling India.

Well said!

I'm an Indian descendant of those early Indian/British immigrants with family history going back before the colonization and if you think we didn't have roads and hospitals before the invasion you're sorely mistaken. In fact the British parliament at the time actually had a meeting about how to occupy India when their infrastructure was already so good. The speaker who swept the floor proposed that they destroyed the school system and existing infrastructure so that the Indians didn't know how good they had it. Part of what some of my family did was work to convince folks the British way was better... Because they were paid to spread the propoganda.

Regarding trading rights all they did was steal them from the Persians, Africans, and others that already had routes

Before British rule India’s GDP was 27%.

Well said, Mr. Lazarte. If you hear "Snow is black" often enough, you will begin to believe it. People are capable of horrible things. And individuals are capable of horrible things. In evolutionary terms, we are all still red in tooth and claw. Our civilized nature is only skin deep. What happened in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's could happen anywhere.

No we are not. It is not the people of countries that do this but the people in charge, running the countries, you do not think they tell everyone the truth do you?

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Speak for yourself!

Ask the Irish...

Did you not read ??? This had nothing to do with the British…it was a famine. They happen all overt the world. This one was just one of them

So, rather than being outnumbered and outcompeted by 50 million English, you'd rather take your chances with 70 million Germans, who are much more efficient and competitive than the English?

Scottish with a name like Armstrong?

I don't think a royal has ever married a person from Wales or Northern Ireland.

"this is just history so please don't get so worked up about it" is the most deluded thing I've read all week.

The Madras famine was caused by a massive drought, not man's inhumanity to man. Anyone who is starving, be he human or not, will resort to cannibalism to survive.

Periodic droughts and famines in India were not caused by humans, but by the failure of the monsoon season. Blame random natural forces.

Nature’s inhumanity to man can be just as bad as man’s inhumanity to man

I thought so too, but I took precaution, and VOILA! Just scroll through the comment section and you'll find many who got pretty offended. One even called me a "snowflake" for displaying my pronouns LMAO

So all those millions of white Europeans who were enslaved and sent to Africa and Asia don't count?

There have been horrible injustices done to every race throughout history. No certain race or skin color has a corner on that dreadful market.

While your post is true in general, it does not apply to the situation in this photograph. The Madras famine was due to a widespread drought, not because people were purposely withholding food from them. And the potential cannibals? Those were his neighbors, people just like himself, and likely from the same caste system.

Yep Hammie Hammie, I'd add that they also say they build great infrastructure (for logistics of the stolen goods or for organizing the people they steal from, so they work more efficiently helping to steal the goods)