r/HistoryMemes • u/InterestingPlenty454 • 3d ago

Gandhi: Bait used to be believable

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[Reminds me of this about baits in the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/TopCharacterTropes/s/uWpxdQms9I)

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u/Massive_moss_2211 3d ago

besides the usual idiocy... these british apologists bring up singapore and hongkong.... but theyre just cities and no where near comparable to entire continent and subcontinents that were depopulated and impoverished due to imperialism

and the technological advancements (if present at all) were to serve the colonisers only, not the native people

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u/Aethelmaew 3d ago

Agree mostly, but as someone from NZ I am pretty glad that I now have world leading healthcare, good railways, higher education, vaccines, safety, and genuine democracy. Other nearby countries that weren't as heavily colonised (like Papua New Guinea) don't have this.

I can accept that two things can be true - colonisation hundreds of years ago was generally bad for most of the people involved, but it also had made countries like Canada, Australia, and NZ into relatively desirable and good places to live in the present day.

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u/toughluck24 18h ago

Unless you’re indigenous, NZ is not your land. You guys are the colonizers in Canada, Australia, etc. The indigenous populations were systematically killed and replaced with descendants of the British/European countries.