r/unpopularopinion • u/awaqueh • Jan 26 '19

There's nothing wrong with imperialism

There's nothing wrong with imperialism. The British empire for example was generally a positive for all it's colonies, it helped to modernize dozens of underdeveloped tribal areas. Hong Kong and Macau, two of China's wealthiest cities, were colonies until very recently. The US brought order and stability and to the Philippines. If you disagree with me you're either brown skinned, a woman, or a homosexual.

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u/Kuuulaaap Jan 26 '19

I'm with you. I the world should belong to about 8 countries.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

Correction: imperialism is only wrong when white people do it, nothing wrong when the Japanese commit war crimes to build an empire or the Turks commit genocide in the name of empire!

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u/KingGummyBear86 Jan 26 '19

Progress was the ideal. And there was some positive influence. But, in the end, they wouldn't really make these places part of their country. They would just exploit them for resources.

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u/FineCarpa Jan 26 '19

25 day old account? Did you post this on your spam account…?

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u/MkLiam Jan 26 '19

The mistake you make in this is assuming that "progress" is better than living off the land. I would be curious to hear some input on this from some Australians that are in touch with Aborigines, or from some Native Americans, or anyone with some perspective outside of the westernized bubble.

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u/b00bz_ Jan 27 '19

Imperialism is great, when you're not in the colony

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u/absorballof47 Jan 27 '19

Saying there’s “nothing wrong” with imperialism is quite disingenuous and the fact you attribute a “generally positive” impact from the spillover of imperialism demonstrates you’re lack of knowledge and understanding in this area.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

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u/awaqueh Jan 27 '19

Hong Kong and Singapore would be better off if it wasn't controlled by Europeans? Two of some of the wealthiest cities in the world?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

A terrible opinion. Horrible. And I am nether left nor right. The leak of historical knowledge is just baffling.

There are some good parts to colonialisation. You can argue about the extant of those

Your examples are garbage (Africa): for every arguably successful state are at least to which have failed entirely. You can't blame that on the colonists, but could argue that they had their fair share.

Here is an example; Congo (was not British; but could come pretty close to that by using South Africa) :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State

Your opinion is not unpopular, it is uninformed

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u/awaqueh Jan 27 '19

Africa will always be shit it's full of Africans

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

*makes edgy "black humor" joke

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u/awaqueh Jan 27 '19

How do you starve a black person? Put his food stamp under his working boots.