Should First World Nations give away their comfort of living to Third Worlds ( Archived) (78)

Yes obviously,u know how to stoop so low,u r the one living in the slum not me.
U need to see a head shrink and don't stop taking your medication.
U r so inferior,u like to portray your inferiority complex into the most noble whites.
Pls crawl back into your whole ,nobody need your confused opinion.And remember to wash yourself and scrub your false teeth when u wake up in the morning.
I do genuinely feel sorry for u.Pls accept my sympathy.

The period of colonial rule, spanning some 200 years, is routinely depicted as the systematic plundering of a nation. The popular view is that the Empire stripped India of its natural resources and gave little in return, leaving the place all but destitute when independence was finally granted in 1947.

Now, however, a new book written by an Anglo-Indian challenges this notion. It asserts that in fact Britain laid the foundations for modern-day India and the prosperity that it enjoys today.

The girders for every bridge, the track for every mile of railway and the vast array of machinery required for India's infrastructure were all carried there by the same ships that helped exploit a land thousands of miles away. The engineers who laid the cornerstones for India's development from Third World nation to burgeoning industrial superpower were British.

"The indisputable fact is that India as a nation as it stands today was originally put together and created by a small, distant island country," says Dr Kartar Lalvani, founder of the vitamins company Vitabiotics and a former Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, in the book he has spent the past eight years writing, The Making Of India: A Story Of British Enterprise. It comes out later this year.

He adds: "The 'sins' of the Empire have been widely and frequently written about while the other positive side of the imperial coin, of which Britain can be proud and which laid the foundations for modern-day India, has always been overlooked. This is the first book of its kind to recognise Britain's vast contribution to India's social, civil and physical infrastructure provided during two centuries of colonial rule."

Is that the area u was born and bred.U don't exactly look like an English person.U can fool some other people sometimes but u can't fool many people all the time.
U can't fool me!

Is that the area u was born and bred.U don't exactly look like an English person.U can fool some other people sometimes but u can't fool many people all the time.
U can't fool me!

Is that an original statement from you, or a copy and paste?

It's taken from the book.

Ref Dr Lalvani, who came to the UK in 1956 to study, believes that both nations benefited from the trade links that were firmly established in the 17th century and continued under the often maligned East India Company, which founded its first trading post in Surat, on the west coast of India, in 1613. Within 40 years it had another 22 bases, supplying the motherland with everything from salt to opium. At the time India, a country of disparate states, had no uniform government and it seemed that France might gain control as it also sought to expand its empire overseas. That prospect was ended by the victory of Robert Clive over French forces at Plassey, in Bengal, in 1757.

It paved the way for the British Raj to rule India for almost two centuries, for the East India Company to thrive and for fortunes to be made by individuals.

There were cases of corruption and greed and cruel reprisals against opponents but Dr Lalviani says: "It is important to note that there is a substantial list on the credit side.

"They include railways, roads, canals, mines, sewers, plantations and the establishment of English law and language.

"Great cities including Bombay, Calcutta and Madras were built and some of the finest universities and museums in India were founded. The first definitive atlas of India was drawn and there were great social reforms, such as the eradication of thugee (violent highway robbery), the banning of the custom of suttee (the burning of widows on the husband's funeral pyre) and female infanticide.

"Perhaps most innovative of all was the bringing together of several different states into one unified India."

Gradually the power of the East India Company was eroded to be replaced by more direct British government of India, leading to more investment. The Indian Army was formed and its top officers trained in new military academies, modelled on Sandhurst.

At the heart of India's development was the expansion of the rail network, originally built to secure the colonial hold, which still prospers.

Within 25 years, 10,000 miles of track were laid joining distant parts of the nation. By independence, 136,000 bridges had been constructed.

Today Indian Railways is the world's largest employer, with a staggering 1.6 million workers on the payroll. By the mid-19th century India had a postal system, the spread of the English language allowed communication between people from different backgrounds, and the arts were thriving.

Wildlife and ancient buildings, such as the Taj Mahal, were protected.

Actually the economy of London and development of London is the best in Europe and one of the best in the world.!
Reality is where no third world people live is usually the poorest.
And London have a beautiful Queen which none of them has got.And they all want to come here from all their European civilised countries to grab the sterling of the most wonderful Queen.
London economy is still blooming while most others is collapsing,and it's the town which populates most of the third world immigrants.

I don't diepute what you say

U r absolutely right.Why give to lazy people whatever their race,colour or creed?
Encourage people to work to earn.Encourage individual govts to create jobs for its own people.

Political correctness is an invention of white middle class people with their lawns mowed to a length beneath 5mm. It's a sham. It rests on people never having much close experience with other races and cultures and that's why the establishment can carry on saying things which streetwise people know to be a lie.

Black women are most into thug-loving, muslim men(and Indians)are the most creepy etc... These are things young people know already. Okay middle class young people, being ever so much sophisticated, will make the same point in an ironic and plausibly deniable way but it's still the same point being made.

For example the police. When every single officer is filmed throughout every moment of his beat it will answer whether the police discriminate against black people or whether black people are more likely to be a criminal and resist arrest.

So long as society is constantly monitored then justice will be done and political correctness will hang soon after.

No, people are not equal,
you can not equalise a bright, intelligent person who works hard towards prosperity and a lazy bum who expects everything on a plate just because they are both human...
Forced equality will only bring anarchy...
People are different in any way...
If you are an employer would you pay equally your manager and your cleaner?!

We are subjected to extreme experiments by the global oligarchs and here you are,asking Should First World Nations give away their comfort of living to Third Worlds...