Colonization is not a question of morality, but of ability. Europeans were capable of ruling the world; if Africans or Indians had the ability they would’ve done the same.
Not hard to figure out why the industrial revolution did not start in India – but don’t fool yourself, if it had, the Indians would’ve come to the British Isles and done exactly the same thing. All people have the capacity for evil, yours and mine, don’t be naïve.https://twitter.com/the_urban_sage/status/1084301196100173825 …
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Of course. I have a few British friends where I live in fact. I don't attribute malevolence or goodness onto ethnic groups, only bigots do that.
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Empires start, expand, and fall. It's the nature of things and will continue as long as humans are in existence. Rome, and yes India as wellhttps://www.ancient.eu/Gupta_Empire/
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Tell me more about India's monarchies and how they were just fantastic crucibles for an industrial revolution, only to be deprived by the British colonization.
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the soul of a “people” creates its society
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History suggests otherwise. Indian empires have almost never looked to expand politically beyond the bounds of undivided India. It was a self-sufficient land blessed with natural riches and perennial rivers. Europe's bleak winters mayhave forced their expansion
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The sultans created a culture and religion that rewarded the status quo. And got... status quo. Europeans were too busy killing each other over the perceived/real slights against their honor. Needless to say, both cultures got what they fought for.
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But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? ~A Sojenietzen
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But Stephen, india was quite self sufficient, unlike the Europe then, and was definitely not as aggressiven so we can speculate that the probability of India doing the same would be small. Don't you think?
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Unlike Europe, India and China never had the need to move to the other end of the globe looking for better trade routes.
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On what basis do you make that statement?
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But you are quite naive about Indian history, casting aspersions that everyone wud be like Anglo saxons just if the circumstances be different. Indians had been to far east Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia; but didn't pillage and impoverish the native populace for own benefit.
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