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Title says it all.
I've been reading up a bit lately on the British Empire. I think it's a fascinating piece of history and I've also always enjoyed films that have something to do with the subject.
And it made me wonder, what do today's Briton's think about the British Empire? Of course we all know about the many atrocities that were committed under colonial rule. But at the same time, I can't help but think some part of you guys must romanticize, and yearn for, the days when your nation was ultra-powerful and ruled nearly a quarter of the earth.
It was "the empire on which the sun never sets"! Soldiers cried out with the slogan, "Make all the world England!"
So what of it, Brits? How does the British person of 2017 regard your nation's time as supreme ass kickers? Do you look back at it as a shameful era in your country's past? Or does some part of you with the era of empire-building would arise anew?
I've been reading up a bit lately on the British Empire. I think it's a fascinating piece of history and I've also always enjoyed films that have something to do with the subject.
And it made me wonder, what do today's Briton's think about the British Empire? Of course we all know about the many atrocities that were committed under colonial rule. But at the same time, I can't help but think some part of you guys must romanticize, and yearn for, the days when your nation was ultra-powerful and ruled nearly a quarter of the earth.
It was "the empire on which the sun never sets"! Soldiers cried out with the slogan, "Make all the world England!"
So what of it, Brits? How does the British person of 2017 regard your nation's time as supreme ass kickers? Do you look back at it as a shameful era in your country's past? Or does some part of you with the era of empire-building would arise anew?