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gopoohgo t1_itlhobl wrote

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>Why? Turned how?

Like how the UK invaded India, turned it into a colony and looted it's riches? And now you have someone of Indian descent (who is also rich af) as Prime Minister?

Oh how the turn tables, as the kids say nowadays.

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woopdedoodah t1_itlpdua wrote

I'm ethnically Indian. As annoying as the British are, and as well documented as some of the abuses... the British are not this evil colonizing power you make them out to be. Everywhere the Brits went, they educated the native populations (especially the 'elites' of that population) with good English education and wanted them to assimilate into British culture. That's not to say they were perfect, but it's also not surprising that Britain and India get along farely well and that Indians are well-accepted in the UK as Britons. IIRC, at this point the entirety of the British isles are now led by people of Indian ethnicity.

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gopoohgo t1_itlsblt wrote

>As annoying as the British are, and as well documented as some of the abuses...the British are not this evil colonizing power you make them out to be.

Since I'm American, we disagree on the bolded point, tongue-in-cheek.

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woopdedoodah t1_itm4q3x wrote

I'm american too.. that's great. But british colonialism was a mixed bag. Not universally bad, not universally good. The Brits were rather accepting of foreign aristocrats. It's how they got so powerful. Not sure why I'd be downvoted for this.

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