British people are proud of colonialism and the British Empire, poll finds

Wow British are racist

And they were right. The empire sparked the first world war. No empire and free trade is much better.

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It is true you can't help those who helped themselves but leave them alone. As as for the Transatlantic slave trade, the British and others benefited more than the Africans who sold their people into slavery. They paid the Africans next to nothing compared to what they earned working the enslaved on the Caribbean plantations to produce sugar that the colonies didn't get but was sent back to Britain.

lmao! But I thought HE was the best thing ever and because HE is so great that was why the British HAD to beat his teachings into the African slaves and the natives in the Caribbean.

This I agree with (I have family in Australia who are there because a child stole a piece of bread)

The British public are generally proud of their country’s role in subjecting the world to colonialism and the British Empire, according to a new poll.

At its height in 1922 the British Empire governed a fifth of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s total land area, but its legacy divides opinion.

Common criticisms of the empire include its policies causing millions of famine deaths in British India, its running of brutal detention camps in occupied territories, and massacres of civilians by imperial troops.

The British Empire was also a dominant slave-trading power until the practice was outlawed in 1807, after which the Empire played key a role in ending the practice internationally.

The Empire’s proponents say it brought economic development to parts of the world and benefited the countries it controlled.

David Cameron has previously said the Empire should be “celebrated”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/british-people-are-proud-of-colonialism-and-the-british-empire-poll-finds-a6821206.html

anyone finds this disturbing?

When the British came to my island there were hundreds of thousands of natives.

So are you now putting business ethics/fairtrade on an even moral standing as slavery now? It's very interesting to see you play the victim on the behalf of those poor hard done-by slavers.

times have changed

now most just think he's a dick.

So if the British wanted sugar plantations why not plant the sugar cane in the UK? Why come a kill the natives in the Caribbean for the land? Why buy people to work on these plantations? Why not pay their own British ppl to work on them? Why rape the women? Is it that their own whites woman were too ugly or the sex wasn't that good or the white women thought them to be repulsive idiots so they didn't want to give it up? There was nothing fair nor ethical about the British and their operations.

Except it's only your island because we took your people their.

It is no more your island than the it is the British and at least we had the decency to leave.

But I hope you're posting from your Island and not from the UK as this would be a little hypocritical of you don;t you think.

Nope, I am not saying it was ethical...but the intentions were no more or less ethical than anyone else, the only difference was the capabilities and the drive. Africans were kidnapping, enslaving, raping and murdering Europeans as early as the 16th century, so perhaps that could be why they didn't feel quite the pang of guilt you would like them to.

P.S: Even Julius Caesar alluded to the ugliness of British women I believe. Many people still do today, including myself. So perhaps there is some truth in your statement.

I think you will find that an assassination "sparked" the first world war.

There were many reasons that started the first world war. That assassination is the trigger, not the cause. Tensions between nations were already high due to different reasons. The main cause of Britain's participation in wwi however, is due to the competition for markets as Germany became an industrial power. Otherwise Britain has no reason to participate in that war.

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The Arab Empires (or more accurately, the Islamic Empire/s) were nothing like the British.

Wow British are racist