The worst thing the British Empire did was to lay the foundation for the United States to exist in the first place and allow them to become independent... despite how bad Britain was, the US is FAR worse...
No mention of how the British empire went back on their agreements with the arabs, occupied their land, tortured and killed any opposition and aided in the establishing of Israel. Their mess is still felt today.
When considering Boer deaths in British concentration camps, it needs to be remembered that the British Army suffered a similar order of magnitude of non-battle deaths. It should also be noted that when proper facilities were put into the camps, the death rate fell below that in Glasgow (so-called "Second City of the Empire"). Context is needed.
Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iran, Panama, Guam, and Greneda. All had wars / coups because leaders were turning towards socialism or nationalisation of natural resources. Then there's is the 'Bay of Pigs' attempted invasion of Cuba and the war in Korea.
The Irish population went up six-fold in the two centuries under British rule before the potatoes famine. If the British get the blame for perhaps a million famine deaths, do they get the credit for the extra 6 million Irish who appeared under their recent rule? Context is needed.
Irony….transported criminals, themselves barely exhibiting human traits , n they had the nerve to question others’ being human…their accent is sooooooooo lowclass but the tenenent dwellers that they had been in England, dictated said…
Also Scotland WASN'T conquered unjustly, they legally and officially joined and peacefully united with englad in 1701 to form the UK. The king was Scottish, so in order for him to succeed the throne, he had to unite both kingdoms. What was done to Scotland was done by SCOTTISH KINGS... not British rulers technically speaking.
The tip of the iceberg.The real cruelty was in the daily snobbery and arrogance.Its what caught up with them.Its what catches up with all greedy untouchables.Its goiung on today.The world is slowly changing.
The Amritsar Massacre involved the deaths of perhaps 1,000 people. The Indian population had much more more than doubled during British paramountcy in India from about 180 million to some 380 million. Context is needed.
What bloody context are you talking about? Today india's population is about 1.5 billion, no thanks to the brit empire and brit royals who were responsible for the genocide of nearly 1 billion indians during their colonisation in india! If not for the british, india's population today would have been 2.5 billion! Apeshit context indeed...
I am not defending the British empire, I grew up in a former British colony. There were schools all over the island, next to every church, mosque or temple almost. As an adult. I was reading about the Angolan independence and I learned that the Portuguese only built churches. I viewed British colonialism a little differently since then. Empires are brutal by definition. The Aztecs beat up on all of their neighbours, until the Spanish Conquistadors beat them up, then the British beat the Spanish. As one of the people who die in the collateral damage of 'empire', I think it is progress that I now have options for who will exploit my grandchildren and steal our resources. I expect at the next election, parties will be sponsored by China, Russia, US and UK.
When will we get this video about the US? They are 100% a colonial empire by the legal definition of it. They did identical to the British empire but to native American tribes: stole land, deported people, killed them, whether deliberately or not, forced migration to reservations, deliberately killed off all the Buffalo for no reason except to hurt the tribes, they oppress the power of individual states and citizens, etc, etc. It's not only wrong and messed up to condemn a foreign country for doing something we did as well, but also, bias and hypocritical... if you want to pick on the British empire, you have to pick on the American empire as well... if Britain has to pay reparations, etc, then so should the usa. Also, FYI, you can't technically claim to be the richest and most powerful nation if you stole all your wealth and power from others like the US did... if the US actually paid off all the debt they owe and never exploited or illegally ripped off others, they wouldn't be so rich and powerful. It's all by coincidence and via exploitation...
The problem with the American Empire is that it is rooted in the same foolish belief of superiority, just like the British Empire. Superiority provides an endless stream of justification. But looking at America, there is also a similarity with the Roman Empire. Under Marcus Aurelius Rome was prosperous. When his son Commodus snatched the throne, things started to go sour. He complacently and carelessly underestimated the Christians and by proxy was responsible for Rome being split in two. The Catholic church in the West and later Islam in the East with Constantinople as the capital city. The decay set in and we can read about the details in history books. In comparison, America always had that same religion, imported by Europeans who came to Virginia, in other words, the colonies and settlements were doomed from the beginning. America is rampant with religions and cults competing with each other and even today, if you say that you don't believe in a god you are automatically branded a socialist or communist. Nowhere else in the 'civilized' world are normal citizens so ostracised because they refuse to toe the line. For above mentioned reasons, I have long come to the conviction that ultimately America will go the same way as the Roman Empire.
@@ricklee5845 thank you for the recommendation. My mom and her siblings are survivors of the residential schools. So I have heard tons of horror stories of what happened in those schools. Schools that the government started because they wanted to rid of the "savage Indian". But thank you for the recommendation. I will be watching that!
@@Atimoskisk You're most welcome. 1923 is the second prequel to 'Yellowstone' and 1883 is the first. I thought I mention it so you can get your bearings if you need to. Some of the biggest perpetrators of white American expansion like Custer and Bill Cody are still revered today. You might also be interested in a wonderful documentary called "The American Buffalo". It is very sad.
The communal bloodshed in India and Pakistan largely occurred AFTER independence and was not committed by the British, who were about the only people actively trying to oppose it. Nor were the new borders "arbitrary" and they have not changed since, except in Kashmir. The British did not advocate Partition. India's Muslim leaders did and its Hindu leaders reluctantly accepted it. Context is needed.
The bloody brits were the ones who caused in-fightings among the hindus and muslims in the first place! Go read some authentic history and then apply some intelligent context to it
Thats like the zionists saying Gaza is ok,cos the US and UK did lots worse during the world wars.Helas,you are right tho.Evil is evil,even if bigger evil happened elsewhere.
Very little rice was diverted to the front lines. Rice was not a part of normal British rations and Egypt supplied the Middle East Theatre. The Malaya campaign involved only about 70,000 Indian troops, who would have been eating the same amount of rice if kept in India. The same is true of all other fronts where Indian troops served. There was no net loss of rice to Indians because Indian troops were sent overseas. The initial rice shortage was caused by the fact that significant quantities of Indian rice was imported from Burma and Egypt. Burma was over run by the Japanese in early 1942, cutting off imports from there entirely. Egypt couldn't get much nitrate for fertiliser from Chile due to wartime shipping shortages, so its production and exports fell. Context is needed.
Really? Don't you worry... you'll soon see the karmic retributions of all the brit empire did befalling the brit collective and then y'all can sit and apply all contexts y'all can think of
The atrocities that the British Empire committed over hundreds of years is Needless to say, Truly Horrible- However, If you guys did a video on the atrocities that other Empires committed, even smaller groups of people, like how some Native American tribes had and brutalized slaves brought from Africa, or that certain tribes in Africa played a Huge role in the selling of their own people, the video would probably be over 2 hours long
native Americans tribes are long gone and have been slaughtered by white people long time ago, Africans traded slave laborer's I doubt they though it would have this lasting affect it has now, that's why Ghana gave black Americans citizenship. The point is you are still reaping the benefits of what your ancestor's did back then, he only glossed over what happened they ruined generations without giving black people or ingenious reparations.
