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Originally Posted by foreverwar
The native Americans, Australian aborigines, Maoris and all the other natives of the countries you conveniently "omitted" may disagree with your rather simplistic "I'm all right, Jack, so screw you (and thank you for all your assets) attitude.
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The problem is foreverwar your not looking at the empire through rose tinted glasses
I mean we gave Africa and India the railways, and "civilised" Johnny Foreigner...what more could they have wanted?
It seems some people believe the empire was purely an altruistic endeavour on our part done out of the goodness of our hearts.
Just a little example of our "altruistic" behaviour was how we flooded China with Indian Opium in the process causing untold misery, and when the Chinese government complained we went to war to insure this insidious trades survival, not once but twice, yep those were the days.
