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Originally Posted by martes86
Yeah... um... that was the likely excuse on which colonialism and slavery was built on for centuries, because we were doing them a favour... right.  |
No offense, but this is just a typical knee-jerk reaction. Try to take all things into consideration before giving me the PC crap. It isn't as simple as "Colonies were evil. Next chapter."
I'm no friend of slavery, God forbid. What I think is that with civil / human rights constantly improving in Western societies, it would have had a positive effect on the colonies as well. And with the people then demanding more say in political matters, this could have been granted and used to build something meaningful there. And people had at least some basic education. In some places, all the education they get now is for boys how to pick up an AK-47 and for girls how to whore themselves on the street to stay alive. And there were no vast famines and barbaric slaughterings of whole communities in constant civil wars going on as it is now.
So, just packing up and leaving didn't work out too well either, that is for sure. Also, not all colonies of the different countries were run the same.
But whatever, I'd just like to call it a mood point now, even though living with false or zeitgeist-adjusted memories never bodes well for the present or future.