[Cronos]

Completely skipped over the ghastly thing bit. Hmmm... and besides suppressing suttee, the BRitish Empire did exacerbate the Bengal famine (just like it did for hte Irish potato famine), it did succeed in impoverishing the country by forcing it to buy produced goods from merry ole England (thereby lining the pockets of the mill-owners inBritain) -- a captive market. Yes, your ancestors did do that, plus created the first concentration camps as pointed out by nopardons. The Brits also created many of the world's problem areas like Kashmir, Pakistan, Saudi A (remember El Laurence -- LAwrence of Arabia?), Iraq (a state cobbled out of 3 distinct provinces of the Ottoman EMpire joined only so the brits could take the oil), THe Palestinian state (by refusing to let the Jews have Israel until the Jews kicked the Brits out), then Northern Ireland, sitting idly by while the Turks slaughtered a million Christian Armenians.

And going a bit further back, remember the Crimean war? When the Brits fought AGAINST Christian Russia, preventing Russia from liberating Constantinople and all of the Balkans from the Muslim Turk's grasp?

All in the past no doubt, but reminders that your Empire was not as "glorious" as you'd like to believe. BEtter than others, no doubt, but still with many, many flaws.

At one stage the Brits were dominant (the late 1800s) but they never changed the world for the better as America is doing now.

[jjbrouwer]

...they never changed the world for the better as America is doing now.

Hilarious!

Tell that to the people of mighty Granada or any of the other tiny nations bullied by America under the Reagan regime.

Then Clinton generously bombed the crap out of Serbia to "change the world for the better".

Dubya blew holes in some sand dunes to get himself reelected and is still "changing the world for the better", searching for those elusive/ non-existent weapons of mass destruction.

Meanwhile, in recent history, America has "changed the world for the better" by befriending lunatics like Noriega and Saddam - before turning against them when it suits them.

Ironically, though America has caused havoc all over the world, only about ten per cent of you even have passports!