Goodness, the ones that impress me most are

1/ The sewer system

2/ Electric motor

3/ Cement

4/ Telephone

They are individually earth changing

Unconsciously, lefties know that former British colonies are more advanced than most of the world. A part of the reason they want non-Westerners to migrate here en masse is because they want to civilise them. What they're saying is: 'leave your 3rd world dump. Come here and enjoy the fruits of civilisation'. In effect, lefties have simply reversed the flow of traffic. Formerly, it was the British going to other countries and bringing them civilisation. Now, it's the lefties bringing other countries here to be civilised. 'Though no lefty will admit that.

Britain invented sandwiches.

Brian Ross wrote on May 4^th, 2017 at 11:43pm:


Rather than blame it on the Empire it's self, could we not blame it on what it was built on? Capitalism? Where's Marla these days?

Brian Ross wrote on May 4^th, 2017 at 11:43pm:


You do but jest, methinks.

Huge local business empires grew up around wherever the British made landfall and established their trading posts. Shanghai had thousands of the local Chinese making their fortunes or a good living from first the British and then all the other foreign trading enterprises.

Hong Kong went from being a sleepy fishing village to an economic powerhouse in which the locals prospered alongside the British.

And so on and so forth.

And then there's Australia .... a First World country in 200 years while those to the north of us still flounder in poverty.

And then India which adopted holus bolus almost every institution of the one-time British occupiers. Same with a dozen countries in Africa.

And all the while that Britain was creating wealth for the locals in far flung places through business and trading, the average Brit at home was working in appalling conditions in Dickensian "Satanic Mills" where the sky glowed red at night where the factories and foundries were. Child labour. Women. 18 hour work shifts. Sleeping next to the looms as their permanent residence.

Taking a trip around Britain's Midlands and elsewhere you'll see the sort of miserable terraced housing the average Brit called 'home' during these years when 'the sun never set on the British Empire'. It was only a very few who saw any benefit in their lives from British colonialism.

The notion much beloved of ethnics and self-haters like Brian is that the British people were enjoying a life of idle luxury at the expence of foreign locals slaving mercilessly in hideous conditions, but the truth is in fact quite the opposite. 

And then again, people like Brian never consider why everything is Made in China nowadays, and that the reason for this is China's Dickensian 'Satanic Mills' where the long work-hours and poor pay makes this all possible. But no, forget about today's semi-slave conditions in China and India - let's turn back the years and harp on endlessly about the guilt Britain should bear for its colonial years.

And then let's compare the legacy of Spain and Portugal's colonial exploits in comparison to that of Britain's.

South America.

Say no more.

 

And then consider that when I was at school in Britain we were told by our teachers all about the nasty things that occurred during the colonial years - nothing was hidden from us. We were taught the good and the bad.

Compare this liberal and morally mature attitude to that of Japan where upon their defeat in WWII the story of their utter cruelty and barbarity across the Asia Pacific region was kept out of their history books and the classrooms of Japan.

Bare-faced denial was practiced by one-and-all from the top of the social hierarchy to the bottom. My own parents witnessed how the Japanese Occupying Forces treated the Chinese in Manchuria, with decapitated heads stuck on poles everywhere.