TheRedSquirrel87Manchester, Greater Manchester, England UK1,107 posts
pedro27: what was the over all motives of the British Empire back in that time?
The short answer is power.
Longer answer is raw materials to support the ideas of the enlightenment - Britain was primarily an economic empire like the Romans and it fathered modern capitalism and the industrial revolution - and a one-world philosophy to make the planet agree with our ethics and morality(Western people carry this philosophy right up until this very day).
Longer answer is raw materials to support the ideas of the enlightenment - Britain was primarily an economic empire like the Romans and it fathered modern capitalism and the industrial revolution - and a one-world philosophy to make the planet agree with our ethics and morality(Western people carry this philosophy right up until this very day).
Really, but the Brits were so much more brutal than the romans, in their empire building days....
pedro27: what was the over all motives of the British Empire back in that time?
the rich....to get richer....by sending boats to steal..another mans items....be it gold/diamonds/rubber....etc.....in return for a hard days work they would recive a bowl of rice...while the rich people lived off the fat of the land.....
Longer answer is raw materials to support the ideas of the enlightenment - Britain was primarily an economic empire like the Romans and it fathered modern capitalism and the industrial revolution - and a one-world philosophy to make the planet agree with our ethics and morality(Western people carry this philosophy right up until this very day).
if you holded the decision and power would you say yes or no to a united Ireland
truheart1941: the rich....to get richer....by sending boats to steal..another mans items....be it gold/diamonds/rubber....etc.....in return for a hard days work they would recive a bowl of rice...while the rich people lived off the fat of the land.....
if the world was fair ireland would be untied but fairness its not here
TheRedSquirrel87Manchester, Greater Manchester, England UK1,107 posts
TheRedSquirrel87: Yes to an Ireland united under British rule
That's a bad joke btw. I did have IRA sympathies along with my Dad and his Dad before him. Being a nationalist(and not a imperialist)I tend to support most forms of popular nationalism even when they went against our empire. I would also have been on Gandhi's nationalist side against British imperialism.
Yet in this day and age I don't support a united Ireland because even Catholics in Northern Ireland do not want this.
well we are indepentant nation now, i am not bitter over it, peace is better than any fighting, i blame no one for it....70 - 80 years if we are lucky on plant earth
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