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I doubt that it can be said about Britain to have been "the morally highest out of the colonizers". The most obvious difference between Britain and the other c

I doubt that it can be said about Britain to have been "the morally highest out of the colonizers". The most obvious difference between Britain and the other colonizers is that in most British colonies the former native populations have vanished in a much greater proportion than in the colonies of other countries (with the notable exception of India, which was much more populous since the beginning and where much less British have immigrated). Based on this difference, Britain does not seem to have been the morally highest, but the opposite. The current higher solidarity between some former British colonies is based exactly on the fact that these are the colonies where the natives have been almost completely replaced by immigrants, which are more closely related between themselves due to their common origin.

brg 3y ago
Britain led the way to abolishment of slavery.
aegypti 3y ago
There isn’t a single European colonizer who didn’t replace native populations in their settler colonies, “other colonizers” do not exist. That the Spanish Empire established large extractive colonies in 2 densely populated Indias (Aztec, Inca empires) [0] does not erase the complete and near total genocide the Spanish perpetrated in the less populated Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina etc to replace the natives with their settlers. The intractable population density of large extractive colonies does not excuse Empire, and does not provide moral superiority. [0] - https://i.stack.imgur.com/9TdJI.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/9TdJI.png