Maybe, but other things that are less so are here to this very day also, And considering the country we live in has been made prosperous, safe and fair by a good number of the beneficial aspects of British principles, on the balance of things, we haven't done too shabby a job.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Lord I can't believe I'm agreeing with fatman.
Israel India Pakistan Bangladesh Ireland Iran
I mean jezuz muthafuk what a mess they left trying to play manipulation thinking they knew best.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Bollocks. The English gave all those countries cricket, curry and Guinness.
Huzzah!
yeah - I'm sure that my Māori whanau would agree with you (sarcasm ...) as would many people who the English colonized - from Scotland and Ireland and then around the world .. such as the North American Indians who were slaughtered because England put a bounty on their heads ... and the AMriecan balcks, whose ancestors were taken and sold as slaves - with HUGE English involvement in the slave trade ....
Exactly ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Well, there's some very interesting stories from places that were run by the British and the British left, especially amongst the Generation that experienced both British rule (for all it's Ills) and the current regimes - almost all say some variant of 'at least under the British everything was well run' - and that statement has been echoe'd by people from the likes of Barbados, Kashmir, Kenya etc. etc.
As for Slave Trade - Put it this way, before the British declared Slavery illegal and sent the Royal Navy to stop the practice around the Globe, every Nation on earth and every people (including your Māori whanau) had the concept of Slavery and Slaves.
So tell you what - let's make the simple:
Take your pick: British Colonization (with all it's perks and perils)
or
Slavery
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
The emphasis on Utu is probably based on a fallacy .. the significant concept is Muru ..
Britain aristocracy practiced cannibalism .. this is just one article - I'm sure you can find the rest
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...h-2287174.html
Britain was heavily involved in the slave trade (tuarekareka) - and many British fortunes were based on the slave trade ..
Britain abolished slavery in 1833 - well after they'd arrived here ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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