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Sun Aug-23-09 02:14 AM
Response to Reply #11 |
| 27. Don't forget Sudan! another fine mess |
| -Did Britain Wreck the World? |
pnorman |
Aug-22-09 09:01 PM |
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not really.... |
madrchsod |
Aug-22-09 09:07 PM |
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Although the combination of Brits and Americans |
PDJane |
Aug-22-09 09:11 PM |
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And before them... |
Lagomorph |
Aug-22-09 09:17 PM |
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Austrians, Prussians and Russians partitioned Poland |
Hardrada |
Aug-22-09 11:25 PM |
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While we were definitely not the good guys,. there is more than enough blame to go around.. |
pennylane100 |
Aug-23-09 12:08 AM |
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One of the biggest mistakes of the British occupation of India is near Partition Day, 1947. |
roamer65 |
Aug-22-09 09:15 PM |
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Britain did some damage, but they were by no means the only colonial empire in the world then. |
Selatius |
Aug-22-09 09:15 PM |
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The US was a pretty late entrant |
karynnj |
Aug-22-09 10:11 PM |
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It's arguable. The US started expanding soon after the original Thirteen Colonies became the US. |
Selatius |
Aug-22-09 11:53 PM |
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Good point - I missed the obvious |
karynnj |
Aug-23-09 12:17 PM |
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That's a VERY overly simplistic assertion. |
Odin2005 |
Aug-22-09 09:16 PM |
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And also only addresses... |
Lagomorph |
Aug-23-09 01:07 AM |
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Yes, they did. Add Palestine/Israel, Afghanistan, and Northern Ireland to that list. |
invictus |
Aug-22-09 09:17 PM |
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Step back in history and Scotland, Wales... |
JCMach1 |
Aug-23-09 02:15 AM |
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Northern Ireland? You have no idea what you're talking about. |
mr blur |
Aug-23-09 03:43 AM |
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bullshit. the religious issues were political & used for political ends, not purely religious. |
Hannah Bell |
Aug-24-09 03:19 AM |
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Empires don't end well. |
SoCalDem |
Aug-22-09 09:24 PM |
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I sometimes tell my geography classes that many of the world's current problems |
petronius |
Aug-22-09 09:27 PM |
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Had to do something to keep them out of the kitchen |
izquierdista |
Aug-22-09 09:28 PM |
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And African countries like Nigeria and Uganda. And wasn't |
Hardrada |
Aug-22-09 09:58 PM |
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they took out teak, ivory & rubber |
SoCalDem |
Aug-22-09 10:02 PM |
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Don't forget Sudan! another fine mess |
JCMach1 |
Aug-23-09 02:14 AM |
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have you seen the colonized maps of AFrica |
JI7 |
Aug-24-09 02:48 AM |
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nearly every square foot of the world was colonized by some european power, & the few places |
Hannah Bell |
Aug-24-09 03:23 AM |
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Eh, it was the French who fubared Vietnam.. |
Fumesucker |
Aug-22-09 10:09 PM |
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As an anglophile even before I became a Beatles fan, it is sad, but I have to agree |
karynnj |
Aug-22-09 10:10 PM |
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We're only able to have this discussion because of the Industrial Revolution. |
DavidDvorkin |
Aug-22-09 10:49 PM |
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Or the printing press. |
Hardrada |
Aug-22-09 11:28 PM |
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Sure, but no one here is blaming the Chinese |
DavidDvorkin |
Aug-23-09 12:34 AM |
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because they haven't as much as the British did |
JI7 |
Aug-24-09 02:58 AM |
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You're missing the point of my post (#16) |
DavidDvorkin |
Aug-24-09 08:41 AM |
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Excellent point. |
Dr. Strange |
Aug-24-09 08:48 AM |
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yes, but that doesn't change that the Brits did wreck the world |
JI7 |
Aug-24-09 09:51 PM |
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That's what kind of human beings they are |
RB TexLa |
Aug-22-09 10:58 PM |
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Human politics is a more accurate statement. |
proteus_lives |
Aug-22-09 11:59 PM |
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YES! |
Sultana |
Aug-23-09 12:00 AM |
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This quote about sums it up... |
JCMach1 |
Aug-23-09 01:36 AM |
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+1,000,000 |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Aug-23-09 02:16 AM |
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Human greed for and rivalries for power have wrecked the world |
LeftishBrit |
Aug-23-09 03:43 AM |
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If it makes you feel better. |
Zix |
Aug-23-09 05:16 AM |
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DU GrovelBot |
Aug-23-09 05:16 AM |
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yes. but extend it to the entire european ruling class. they're all interbred anyway. |
Hannah Bell |
Aug-24-09 03:14 AM |
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What wankers, stamping out the global slave trade... |
AngryAmish |
Aug-24-09 08:44 AM |
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Well when you have the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh and the Indians to do your bidding... |
JCMach1 |
Aug-24-09 08:54 AM |
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Colonialism wounds the planet and itsw peoples. |
Orsino |
Aug-24-09 08:55 AM |
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They certainly contributed, but we do it better. |
Vidar |
Aug-24-09 09:26 AM |
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Might as well blame Rome. |
Iggo |
Aug-24-09 09:48 AM |
#46 |
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