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Lmao no. You seem like you have podcast brain. Ireland and Wales are no where near where they would be without being colonised. Let alone states further from t
by protocolture 1y ago
Lmao no. You seem like you have podcast brain.
Ireland and Wales are no where near where they would be without being colonised. Let alone states further from the core of the empire.
>The 20th century decline of the British empire is one of civilization's worst failures
Greatest successes. Honestly it could only be better if the britons pushed the angles and saxons back into the ocean.
- wqaatwt 1y agoWales and in a large part Ireland were conquered long before British Empire was a thing, though.
- protocolture 1y agoThe correct labels werent yet applied it doesnt count! Bear in mind that a lot of the bad policies only started to be repealed in like the 60s. And that among other things, both suffered through a lot of the forced cultural assimilation the british empire was peddling.
- wqaatwt 1y agoWell yes, because medieval England or England in the 1500s was in many ways a fundamentally different state than the United Kingdom was in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- tonymet 1y agoit's a fair argument, and tips the scales a bit, but the balance is still overwhelmingly in favor It's not like Ireland and Wales are doing much to preserve their legacies regardless. So it's hard, as an outsider, to intuit how much they actually care.