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The British have a horrible history of imperialism, but just to be clear, this was mostly carried out the by US, who also have a horrible history of imperialism
by 0x262d 6y ago
The British have a horrible history of imperialism, but just to be clear, this was mostly carried out the by US, who also have a horrible history of imperialism.
- as300 6y agoAgreed, but I'd argue that the US's imperialism is fairly well-known. The British managed to avoid that via shrewd and destructive campaigns of divide-and-conquer that stacked the odds against future democracies.
- Ar-Curunir 6y ago? I don’t know if you’ve lived in any British colony, but tons of people despise the British Empire to this day
- DanBC 6y agoPeople may be interested to read a history of Iran-UK relations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_relations#History_of_Anglo%E2%80%93Iranian_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_re... tl;dr Britain has a long history of causing harm to other countries.
- nmstoker 6y agoIt would be good to get some specifics applied here rather than vague generalisations like "X were horrible". Scope, proportion of British / US involved, level of "horrible" activities seem like they would help avoid this becoming a stereotype. After all it wouldn't be acceptable to make stereotypes about Persians or others in a similar position.
- chishaku 6y agoI'm not sure "stereotype" is the right word here. Parent is not making stereotypes about people from the UK or US. They are describing the reputation of those two political entities. As for specifics, I'd refer the unfamiliar to Wikipedia which itself refers to a very limited subset of about hundred or so books on the topic. Perhaps you'll find some particular aspect or angle of British or US imperialism particularly enlightening and will want to research further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
- nmstoker 6y agoThanks. I agree on further consideration that stereotype isn't quite the right word. It seemed that vague terms like "horrible" were not likely to mean the same thing to different readers, in contrast to the way that more tangible accusations might stand up and be more universally understood.