Re: Bruce Gilley - “The case for colonialism”
Originally Posted by
Julie1962
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I'd agree is shades of grey, with out it many great people wouldn't be living here now but how we went into countries wasn't good in any shape or form.
I'd suggest many of our problems today are down to it too.
I'm with you. Colonialism was a thing of it's time it took centuries to build empires (what? 16th to 20th Century?) out of it rose new nations USA, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Brazil etc Without it these would be very different places but the exploitation and subjugation of vast numbers of people was horrendous.
While I suppose you could argue; would India have it's wonderful railway system without it? On the whole I think it would be hard to argue that overall colonialism was a force for good (except for relatively small number of people).