Monty Python is a treasure; they did a few great routines on "the white man's burden" as I recall.
Crumpets they can keep, along with their excuse for "bacon" and rubber eggs. Dan On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:47 AM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
