Some contrast!
“The Ottoman Empire (under Suleiman)...embraced ethnic diversity and religious tolerance.”
“The British Empire is now more often seen as a dark and often brutal period of colonialism.”
The Ottoman Empire engaged in Genocide against Armenian Christians. The German empire, and it was a short lived Empire, not outlasting the war that created it, changed civilization, too, occasioning the metamorphosis of the Bolshevik staggering economy into the Stalin Soviet Empire that did, I believe, have some effect on the course of Western Civilization.
Never mind that the Ottomans went on violent, genocidal purge of Christians. They were ethnically diverse and tolerant, while the British empire were brutal colonialists who left behind a legacy of meritocracy and rule of law. If only those evil brits have just genocided throughout their empire they could be looked up to like the Ottomans. /sarc