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Exactly. Eg South Africa renamed most (all?) road names to native names - is the UK going to change all British road names to African names because colonialism
by heywherelogingo 5y ago
Exactly. Eg South Africa renamed most (all?) road names to native names - is the UK going to change all British road names to African names because colonialism?
- true_religion 5y agoThe UK is a great example because for most of the islands history, some foreign power had seized land as part of an imperial conquest. First the Romans. Then the French and the Danes. Then finally, then “United Kingdom” was created via bloody conquest of a single tribal body over other tribes that spoke different languages and had different religions. Had the Spanish Armada not failed, the UK would likely have become a colony yet again. When I went to school, we were taught the Brits were benign and flawless. Imagine my surprise to learn that English still carries remnants of Britain’s history as a colonial backwater (e.g. cow vs beef).
- pg_1234 5y agoIf ZA makes all road names African, the UK should make all road names English.