BTW, I know we are grateful for small mercies these days but. this from a while back...Headline is misleading, the article gives us the usual 'no need to apologise' and 'good things were done' routine.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6251398/Michael-Palin-British-Empire-was-not-wicked.html?fbclid=IwAR3jyYauzOL9XAo43MHrpmizkt5bbHb5RZkTQExi0-0lQ_XaRpsX6k2bCMU …
Sorry, didn't mean it did. I mean the fact the Torygraph is gleeful about it means it's going to be a bad take.
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To be clear: I am with you. Palin should not be saying the UK/Empire has nothing to apologise for.
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It's not even that so much. It's this bizarre idea that British Empire brought world into communication. As though there was no cross-cultural contact and travel before it.
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Indeed. There is so much to unpack. One big one is most people outside the West are multilingual. The reason English(-speaking) people think being English-speaking is a massive deal is because they are WEIRD and monolingual and can't cope otherwise.
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