Why hasn't Britain apologised for it's empire?

Question

The British empire and it's meddlings in other nations affairs is the reason we have so many problems today..

1)In the Middel East..it changed borders which are still fought over today, and disposed the only democratic govt in Iran just so it can get cheap oil.
2)Africa..has still not recovered from being colonised and raped by the British.
3)The patition of India and millions of Hindus and Muslims you died because of that was the British fault.



The USA hasn't even cause a fraction of the damage that Britain has..but they people won't shut up about American imperialism. Why don't people mention British imperialism.

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Things were better under the British than moset of what followed.
Bi the way judging by your lowsy speling and gramer you might have bennyfited from a doze of gud old Brittish education.
Mind your head when you fall out of your pram trying to find your dummy! "


My " lowsy speling and gramer" (sic)

Yes. I did type this question fast and made lots of 'typos'
But what is your excuse? You answer is full of the worst spelling and grammer I have ever seen on here.
There is a edit facility and spell check when answering questions. There isn't one when asking a question.
Why have you not corrected your mistakes?
You are the biggest idiot I have ever seen on yahoo answers and that takes some doing!!!

Answer 1

I know people are such hypocrites this is partly to delusion as they don't want to critise their 'home country' and also down to pride and arrogance. I was just discussing this issue today in my geography lesson, the British always talk bad about the Americans and the government there (Bush) but they themselves are as bad as America. And Britain talk about world peace and stopping poverty, well it's evident Britain is helping that aim *sarcasm*. The British government who have the power is corrupted but people do not see that. The British supply weapons to LEDC countries and for example in afghanistan they buy drugs off them and then with USA attack the afghans. The British have rubbish and unfair laws especially towards msulims.I could ramble on and on but you get my drift that i agree with what you are saying.

Answer 2

Do you think before Britain created the 'Raj' there were no wars between the maharajah's that ruled India?

In Africa there were also the Germans. Dutch, Portuguese, Belgians, French.

The Spanish also had a massive Empire that controlled large parts of South America along with the Portuguese (National language in Brazil for e.g.)

China and Russia were created out of many 'countries' being conquered. The Russians also formed the USSR and controlled Eastern Europe and have 'interfered' in every conflict in Africa and elsewhere in competition with USA.

Britain under King George VI 'saw' it needed to change (after various insurgencies and uprisings) and created the Commonwealth a way of allowing countries to gain self government and independence whilst retaining trading links.
It may have been accidental but it has proved to be the best way of spreading some form of democracy. The worst betrayal Britain did was to abandon the Commonwealth. As such we gave up any credibility with these countries at a time when they needed UK trade to spur investment and development

Answer 3

basically the different. The British Empire stamped out slavery, no different u . s . in historic previous has tried to do away with slavery. maximum of Africa ought to apologise and pay reparations to Britain for resisting the abolition of slavery, the British Empire opposite to what your instructors inform you at college replaced into no longer geared up on slavery, it had existited in each and every u . s . interior the worldwide at a while. Africa replaced into the slaving continent, and Black africans bypass their slaves unfastened and purchased them (with sparkling earnings) to the Europeans, who then having had to pay for them, fed them transported them and examine out and sell them at a earnings, having incurred all the fees in between. Britain replaced into in basic terms greater effectual than the different Europeans, however the Muslims insisted on slaving long after Britian had abolished it. Likewise India had its u . s . geared up via Britain, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand are all geared up via Britian. Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Sout Africa have been probably the richest countries interior the worldwide until the British left. And Britain gained its conflict int South East Asia against the Communists, ehnce why Malasia and Singapore are wealthy and Vietnam is undesirable. Likewise China is now powering forward because of the fact it used the very wealthy and able Hong Kong as its blue print. different than for which all the peoplke then are lifeless, i in my opinion have no longer something to apologise (and neither has everybody else in Britain) for, that's socialist claptrap, and socialism is geared up on a fantasy theory equivalent to Harry Potter, different than J.ok. Rowling does not try to persuade human beings Harry Potter is genuine, in assessment to the Socialists.

Answer 4

Things were better under the British than moset of what followed.
Bi the way judging by your lowsy speling and gramer you might have bennyfited from a doze of gud old Brittish education.
Mind your head when you fall out of your pram trying to find your dummy!

Answer 5

OK, I am going to dismantle your argument point by point.

1) Before the British came, there weren't any clearly defined borders at all in the Middle East. Heck, there weren't even people there capable of defining their own borders. The British brought the know-how to establish borders. Considering most of those people can't stand one another, the British did the best they could.

2) Here is your biggest misconception. Africa, and other parts of the world, such as India, was not injured by colonialism. They greatly benefitted from it. Read the following by Dinesh D'Sousa, and you will never feel the same about colonialism again:

"Colonialism was the transmission belt that brought to Asia, Africa, and South America the blessings of Western civilization. Many of those cultures continue to have serious problems of tyranny, tribal and religious conflict, poverty, and underdevelopment, but that is not due to an excess of Western influence; rather, it is due to the fact that those countries are insufficiently Westernized. Sub-Saharan Africa, which is probably in the worst position, has been described by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan as "a cocktail of disasters." That is not because colonialism in Africa lasted so long, but because it lasted a mere half-century.

It was too short a time to permit Western institutions to take firm root. Consequently, after their independence, most African nations have retreated into a kind of tribal barbarism that can be remedied only with more Western influence, not less. Africa needs more Western capital, more technology, more rule of law, and more individual freedom."

3) How would you have divided India? You think you could have done better back in those days, under the constraints the British faced? I'm not saying they did a perfect job in defining borders, either in the Middle East (which was much more sparsely populated back then), nor in India, but they did much good.

Now, after reading Dinesh's article, why don't you post some additional details to your question? You might want to thank the British.

Answer 6

I'll tell you why we havent apologised. We didnt do it so why the fcuk should we? Im sick of hearing people say 'oh but we were slaves etc etc' none of the people who were held as slaves are still alive today, none of the people who were responsible for colonization are still alive today so why should we apologize for something that happened before most of us were born? And if we have to apologize for our colonization what about the Belgians? Are you going to demand they apologize for their atrocities and attempts at genocide in the Belgian Congo? And the French, for their colonization and atrocities in Africa and southeast Asia, not to mention their part in the Rwandan Genocide. I know, instead of everybody apologizing for the past, why dont we all try and put the past behind us accepting that bad things were done by a different generation and now we have to look forwards instead of back? Oh, but of course there are people like you so we never will.
Oh, by the way your spelling and grammar is awful

Answer 7

You are talking complete and utter rubbish. Does that mean the Romans had to apologise for conquering other countries, or the Egyptians, Spanish, French and more. And what about the Germans!! It's just history. Africa had the Dutch as well or had you forgotten. America wouldn't even existed without other countries going there and colonisng. It's about time you read about what's happened in the world instead of making stupid statements.

Answer 8

im british and i agree with what you say about the empire,buti cannot agree that usa has not caused damage,in my opinion usa has caused far more,usa nuked japan, look at the dirty war in ,vietnam,iran,iraq twice,i know this is in more recent times,usa has been fighting secret wars behind the scenes for a long time,toppling small countries to put their own bought person in,the cia have got up to some real nasty things,usa dragged us into this latest war in iraq,look at the damage they have caused to those poor people and their country,there is a reason people keep on about american imperialism,maybe both countries are as bad as each other.

Answer 9

maybe because there's no need to, as the british empire did a lot of good to a lot of countries. Your second point might better be directed at countries that really did do harm in Africa, like say Belgium. If you have ever been to Africa and spoken to Africans, you will notice that an awful lot of them speak fondly of their colonial past. Problems in the Middle East and India/pakistan predate our empre anyway.

Answer 10

Funnily enough, I was having lunch with an Indian (now settled in the UK) only today and I brought up this very subject. His view was (1) why apologise for soemthing which wasn't your fault and (2) if the British didn't rule India, they wouldnt all be speaking English and running our call centres - he said 'thanks, we are doing very nicely thank you'.

Answer 11

Really, and it was only Britain that had an empire is that right?

How about you learn some history of the world then come back.

Because I know more about your country's history than you know about mine!

Some questions for you:

* Why do they speak Portugues and Spanish in Latin America?

* Why do they speak Spanish in Mexico?

* Why do they speak French in Quebec?

* Why do they speak French in Inochina, Algeria, Sierre Leone, Benin, The Congo, Rwanda. the Cote D'Ivoire?

* Why do they speak Italian in Lybia?

* Why does Jakarta in Indonesia look like a Dutch town?

* Why do they speak a derivative of German in Namibia and South Africa?

* Why do they speak Dutch in Indonesia?

* Why does the city of Hungchou in China look like a German city?

* Why did AMERICA ANNEXE The Philippines in 1899?

For oil...for resources....now where does that remind me of ... Oh, that's it, IRAQ!!!

so get off your soapbox, you haven't a clue.

Philip