Britain has refused to face up to the problems associated with its imperial past
CJKent (Banned)
“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is...”
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 7:02 PM
Title couldn’t say it all.
Britain has refused to face up to the problems associated with its imperial past because doing so would be traumatic. Without empire there is no British identity.
Britain's empire was established, and maintained for more than two centuries, through bloodshed, violence, brutality, conquest and war.
Not a year went by without large numbers of its inhabitants being obliged to suffer for their involuntary participation in the colonial experience.
Slavery, famine, prison, battle, murder, extermination – these were their various fates.
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