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Oh Boo Hoo is this discussion still going on? So now the argument is that the Brits brought electricity to the savages through colonialism ?
You don't need colonialism to bring electricity to the savages. Japan electrified painlessly without being colonized.
Technology travels.
The internet was discovered after colonialism was dead and gone, it has traveled without any British help to all parts of the world.
Modern technology would have spread anyway with or without the pesky Brits exactly the same way that ideas and technology spread in the past. Agriculture spread from Iraq, paper making from China, cotton weaving from India. All flowed naturally, you don't need slavery or colonialism for ideas to travel.
As for the ottomans who you are bashing left and right, never did they claim their rule to be for the ruled, they were always clear that it was for them alone. The Brits should have the same honesty, they stole, they impoverished, they enslaved and they starved to death many millions for their own benefit as have others before them. What is irritating is when they put some kind of halo around their greed and avarice.
You don't need colonialism to bring electricity to the savages. Japan electrified painlessly without being colonized.
Technology travels.
The internet was discovered after colonialism was dead and gone, it has traveled without any British help to all parts of the world.
Modern technology would have spread anyway with or without the pesky Brits exactly the same way that ideas and technology spread in the past. Agriculture spread from Iraq, paper making from China, cotton weaving from India. All flowed naturally, you don't need slavery or colonialism for ideas to travel.
As for the ottomans who you are bashing left and right, never did they claim their rule to be for the ruled, they were always clear that it was for them alone. The Brits should have the same honesty, they stole, they impoverished, they enslaved and they starved to death many millions for their own benefit as have others before them. What is irritating is when they put some kind of halo around their greed and avarice.