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I was surprised this article didn't mention British colonialism at all.

• Nasrudith 6y ago
  Why would it be worth emphasizing in a very home island bound setting which doesn't even address the middle class residents of the isle. Colonialism went on for over a century before and after. It would be like emphasizing that Edgar Allen Poe married his thirteen year old cousin when discussing his horror influence. Terrible but hardly germane to the topic.
  • throwaway2245 6y ago
    "Le bon ton" likely had a very direct hand in shaping colonialism, given that they were aristocrats and landed gentry, and given the "season" spent in London was shaped around political networking. However, I also meant that it was a sort of cultural neo-colonialism: that the British are allowed to present the history of this period as a romantic drama.
    • rebolek 6y ago
      People are free. This notion of collective guilt - "the British are allowed" - is terrifying.
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    • desas 6y ago
      Bridgerton at least was written by an American novelist and then made into a TV show by an American director / writer / producer team for an American media company.