On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > "of the European Powers, the British were by far > the nicest of the lot to natives" > > Oh, please; give me a break. > > Dan
It's accurate. The British weren't nice, but the Continentals were worse (aside from the Germans who didn't get into the Colonial thing until the 19th century). Of the other Colonial powers, the Germans were comparable to the British, the Portugese tended to be only a bit more heavy-handed (well, arguably, the Portugese were distinctly worse in the Americas but arguably nicer in their Asian possessions then the British), the Dutch were pretty heavy-handed, the Spanish and French were distinctly nasty and the Belgians were just about a nightmare to those they colonized. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
