Captain Slugwash;312552 wrote:For all it's ills the British Empire brought great advantages to many of it's colonies in the long term.
I usually like your posts Raj, but find your last rather hypocritical as I imagine you have taken full advantage of the positives, and why not.
It is impossible to guess what the Indian subcontinent would look like now if Europeans had never arrived, but I doubt it would be the largest democracy in the World.
i was just exploring a deeper thought process, beyond simple intellectual reasoning as to why we have people (as in the case of Leeds rioting) behaving this way.
The end result of British Colonism may have resulted in long term tangible benefit to the countries involved however there would have been a lot of damage along the way. Ultimately i believe in the philosophy that if one hurts other humans (killing, i assume innocents were killed during the creation of the British empire) they (be it the aggressors, invaders and their generational line, whatever you want to call it) will somewhere down the line pay for it, not fair but thats my belief. This is what i consider the Ancestoral KARMA philosphy. The cycle can be broken but maybe in the case of UK it has not so far. Im talking about a higher power, GOD if you believe in him/her/it.
It may be in the past but as my previous post KARMAICLY (is that a word) it is still there.
Listen Im not saying any of what happened in Leeds is right and definitely not an excuse for this behavior. i have watched a number of videos on X and children throwing items into the overturned police car, children, shows there is something seriously wrong.
I still consider the UK a good place to live and am quite appalled that what appears to be immigrants treat the place very badly.