Maybe so, but they gave us crumpets & Monty Python so all is forgiven. DS
On 25 August 2010 21:42, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > That is British propaganda. > > Just what the British did in Ireland alone, for so many centuries, > should keep them from criticizing "continentals." Then there was > Scotland, and Wales. Right here in my home town, they burned down the > courthouse and the church, because the people here were Dutch > Americans instead of English. They committed brutal war crimes in the > Carolinas during the Revolutionary War. > > Look at China, where they forced opium on a nation just to maintain > their tea fix. The Indian subcontinent was given even harsher > treatment. Their invasion of Russia, after the communist revolution, > contributed greatly to the paranoia that controlled Soviet foreign > policy for 75 years. > > The British started the whole nonsense about "the white man's burden." > Now, they criticize the Belgians for following their lead? I don't > buy it. There is no excuse for what Belgium did in the Congo. That > was dreadful, but actually quite limited in time and territory to what > Britain did, all over the globe, with such masterful administrative > skill and military overkil, for cfenturies. > > Dan > > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. -- 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.
