I don't think any of the latter colonizing nations have much to be proud of. Spain Portugal France Great Britain Netherlands (isn't the PM on some woke BS apology tour?) To name a few.
Like all these things, did the good outweigh the bad? Infrastructure, medicine, democracy (of sorts), trade, skills… it is like a monty python sketch… like this current obsession with ‘cancelling’ the slave traders. Well, most were commodity traders, people were (and still are) a commodity, many investing much of their wealth into the communities they were part of or the communities that were affected. I always love how some will adopt a millennial lens on acceptability of activity from hundreds of years ago, even thousands sometimes if it involves bashing the English. It’s utter nonsense.
has anyone got through more than one episode of 1899 yet? A lot of thought gone into it, but too dark and gloomy for me on first visit, not to mention possibly too intricate, might have another go. setting is a bit bit like a parallel universe version set around 15 years earlier than the Titanic and Britannic, but this time ships were named Kerberos and Prometheus.
Got through the first 2 episodes, just...seems very well made but like you say its a bit too involving, for my attention span anyway.
No, English. Rule Britannia seems to only ever be associated with the English when negative. Same as any sport. It’s all jealousy of course: for such a small country we have a;ways achieved so much. So….keeping on thread….I’m watching the world implode up its own rectum
