We are damn lucky to have had Britain to escape from
They had a more positive impact than any other colonizer by far
French second place
Everywhere British where the inhabitants are better off than their neighbors who didn’t
It’s sad to watch the place deteriorate now culturally into mud and debris
***They had a more positive impact than any other colonizer by far.****
Spread Christianity, science, medicine and the English language (based on Latin & French of course). From Wiki:
Between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power.[1] By 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23% of the world population at the time,[2] and by 1920, it covered 35,500,000 km2 (13,700,000 sq mi),[3] 24% of the Earth’s total land area.[4] As a result, its political, legal, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, the phrase “the empire on which the sun never sets” was often used to describe the British Empire, because its expanse around the globe meant that the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.[5]
Good observation. Other that America, is there any country where things are better after the British have left or been kicked out?
What does this Ass hat look like?
I wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for Great Britain. They took my 7 year old dad in and saved him from the Holocaust. I owe them, and I really hate to see what it’s become, but luckily so do a lot of like minded Brits. There are some, just as there are some of us among the Gullibles in the USA.
“We are damn lucky to have had Britain to escape from”
I believe it was GK Chesterton who said the same thing about the Roman Empire. For all their faults they were the great purveyors of western civilization.
Chesterton said “there were pagans, and then there were pagans”- the Roman pagan gods were the god of the hearth, the god of the fenceposts. Pretty benign gods as pagan deities go.
Contrast Rome’s gods to that of Hannibal’s Carthage- Carthage was every bit as advanced as Rome but its god was Cronus, to which they burned infants alive like the Phoenicians did for Moloch.