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So many contenders. Britain built the modern world.
by Boothroid 9y ago
So many contenders. Britain built the modern world.
- barrkel 9y agoThe English-speaking world often thinks so.
- traverseda 9y agoYou're implying you think they're wrong? Why not instead state why you think they're wrong.
- barrkel 9y agoI'm not really interested in a to and fro off-topic argument, but I know from previous to and fros, every big European country has its own heroes of the enlightenment. I find proclaiming nationalist "we're special" ownership ugly and usually ignorant, which is why I commented.
- jpttsn 9y agoYou suggest Britain is an unlikely candidate, merely because there are other options? Wouldn't it be much easier to criticize the notion that one country built the modern world?
- dbingham 9y agoThat's exactly what he(or she) is criticizing.
- jpttsn 9y agoNot explicitly. Instead, his/her argument has the form: "Every country claims to be the important country, and nationalists are bad, so it can't be Britain." I commented because I thought that argument was badly constructed. Of course, anyone can guess whether the argument's author supports the alternative argument (as you claim).
- type0 9y agoAnd by modern world you mean industrial revolution?
- wavefunction 9y agoYeah and it shows. So much human suffering under the British yoke and we're still dealing with the arrogant decisions of a brutish regime... :(