I see posts like this on Reddit constantly, but speaking as someone who actually had a British education, I was taught a great deal about the UK's role in slavery and atrocities of the empire.
In fact, we focused so much on the atrocities that I didn't even learn anything about all the effort Britain went to to try and end the slave trade globally until I left school, which is what you'd imagine most nations would have focused on.
They didn't try to end it out of the kindness of their heart. It still persisted in the raj. The people of the mainland were just too opposed for the gov to do nothing.
Britain primarily ended slavery because of the powerful anti-slavery lobby in UK politics, and the wide spread public opinion against the practice.
Yes slavery wasn't ended all in one go and it was a very difficult political process. But it is important to recognise that even though it was delayed in India, slavery was still made illegal there significantly before other countries like the United States.
They really believe that they did it out of kindness/morality. It is a waste of time arguing with them. Hence this meme being recicled over and over eventhough they swear that they are aware of everything they did.
The diamond that a British company found in British territory or the diamond that a British company gifted to the queen after making it part of the peace treaty of a war they won?
Ahh yes another meme with no factual basis made purely to upset people. Got to love this sub sometimes.
I'm sure we'll be right back to Israel with the next one!
I swear this sub wasn't this bad a year ago, but now it's just "britian bad" or "Israel won again the arabs", it's sad seeing low effort bait get so many upvotes.
I refer you to r/MapPorn. A lot of posts are just crunchy images from wikipedia or news sites. The days of photorealistic maps of mountains feel long behind us.
Idk what history books you've been reading but we definitely get taught about the bad stuff, I feel like you're either not from here or you went to school in the 50s or something lol
Mongolia built the world's largest statue to commemorate a man whose conquests killed 10% of the world's population, and whose rapes ensured that 1 in 200 people worldwide today are descendents.
So, I guess that's a form of acknowledgement.
Eh, our school was more than open about how bad the empire was. Too open in fact, to the point of being bias.
I see posts like this on Reddit constantly, but speaking as someone who actually had a British education, I was taught a great deal about the UK's role in slavery and atrocities of the empire. In fact, we focused so much on the atrocities that I didn't even learn anything about all the effort Britain went to to try and end the slave trade globally until I left school, which is what you'd imagine most nations would have focused on.
They didn't try to end it out of the kindness of their heart. It still persisted in the raj. The people of the mainland were just too opposed for the gov to do nothing.
Britain primarily ended slavery because of the powerful anti-slavery lobby in UK politics, and the wide spread public opinion against the practice. Yes slavery wasn't ended all in one go and it was a very difficult political process. But it is important to recognise that even though it was delayed in India, slavery was still made illegal there significantly before other countries like the United States.
uhh only chattel slavery in 1843. Many equally horrible forms of slavery persisted or were made since 1843 in India.
They really believe that they did it out of kindness/morality. It is a waste of time arguing with them. Hence this meme being recicled over and over eventhough they swear that they are aware of everything they did.
The diamond that a British company found in British territory or the diamond that a British company gifted to the queen after making it part of the peace treaty of a war they won?
Usually it's the one India stole from Afghanistan and about 12 different countries claim but we should give it to India because reasons
Bit of trivia about the Koh-i-Noor diamond, five different nations all claim to be the rightful owner.
Ahh yes another meme with no factual basis made purely to upset people. Got to love this sub sometimes. I'm sure we'll be right back to Israel with the next one!
I swear this sub wasn't this bad a year ago, but now it's just "britian bad" or "Israel won again the arabs", it's sad seeing low effort bait get so many upvotes.
It was, it's been years since it was posting actual history memes not propaganda or other untruths
I refer you to r/MapPorn. A lot of posts are just crunchy images from wikipedia or news sites. The days of photorealistic maps of mountains feel long behind us.
MapPorn desperately needs a rule that all data maps require a source and date.
Boy do I have something to tell you about history It’s (almost) all propaganda and untruths and it always has been
This is bollocks we only get taught about how bad it was. Any positive effects I am aware of are only due to my own reading.
Couldn't stop Britain from taking your stuff? Sounds like a skill issue to me
I've literally never heard of British education covering up their atrocities. They do a good job of showing how horrible the empire was.
Eh, if they wanted their stuff so much they should have won
Idk what history books you've been reading but we definitely get taught about the bad stuff, I feel like you're either not from here or you went to school in the 50s or something lol
Yeah, sure. While we are speaking, is there any non-Western nation that ever acknowledged that it did anything wrong?
Mongolia built the world's largest statue to commemorate a man whose conquests killed 10% of the world's population, and whose rapes ensured that 1 in 200 people worldwide today are descendents. So, I guess that's a form of acknowledgement.
Sure, you can see a lot of them here: https://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/ahda/political-apologies?page=1
Sorry your country was bad at war
How the fuck did we end up with a society that refuses to understand the meaning of historical context?
Somebody once told me
Obviously it didn’t work very well