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Deafwindow t1_j6mqxct wrote

Reply to comment by Shooter2970 in TIL that India had to ban charas (cannabis concentrate) due to pressure from the US. by UltimateGamingTechie

No, it's got to do with extreme fucking poverty due to the British occupation

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Shooter2970 t1_j6mr9js wrote

Oh I thought they left India years ago. Not to mention they have had a population problem for years. But hey you want to rag on the Brits. Go a head get it out.

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FunkIPA t1_j6ms4n0 wrote

Hey you want to defend colonizers, go for it.

Imagine thinking colonizers leaving “years ago” erases everything they did.

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Shooter2970 t1_j6mszuf wrote

Population would be the #1 factor for India being the way it is. Oh and it has been 70+ years since the Brits left. So I should have said "decades ago." 70 years of running themselves. They can take credit for their country.

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-6-6-6- t1_j6mv6d8 wrote

People don't shit in the streets on China. Obviously population has nothing to do with it. You've never been to India; and only circlejerk or perpetuate racist memes on the internet about the country. Nor have you apparently been to certain cities in America; both the deep south and those big "liberul" cities that the news is always droning on about, because the same shit happens there. The only difference is scale; and you're right in the sense that the scale of population and levels of poverty are far different. Reason being?

Colonization. Let's take a look at the dissolvement of the Ottoman Empire after WW1 and how the borders were drawn between the French and the British with a complete and utter disregard for the ethnic make-up and historical constituency of the Levant and Middle-East. Because of their mistakes; the middle-east exists and will probably exist in constant turmoil. India is similar; in the sense that the population was kept under such a level of poverty that 70 years alone isn't anywhere near enough to cover it. Ontop of that; a rapid growing population. Population isn't the reason people shit in the streets though.

Funny enough; the only two countries who have had that much development in 50 years is China and the USSR. Weird how that works right? Look at them now, sadly.

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SolidSquid t1_j6mv47p wrote

We left years ago, but we took pretty much everything with us when we did

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Mister_Brevity t1_j6n7szf wrote

Ok

Why did the British work so hard to collect spices and not use any of them in their food.

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Deafwindow t1_j6mrtk8 wrote

I apologize for offending you. I have no ill will towards British people, just the old East India Company.

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FunkIPA t1_j6mthmz wrote

You’d think a colonial snowflake would have melted by now.

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LovelyBeats t1_j6msmdz wrote

The sheer amount of wealth they extracted from india is insane, it's why they built the railroads, to get it out if the country.

The British Raj and their impact on Indian society is a very fascinating topic

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Shooter2970 t1_j6mtgw3 wrote

I wonder how much wealth was taken out of America when it was colonized. I need to research both countries about this.

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-6-6-6- t1_j6muo3n wrote

Not nearly the same, actually. Making the comparison means you're looking for baseless justifications for your bigotry. While you're at it, you should ask the Irish how much they took from them.

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Shooter2970 t1_j6mz9u4 wrote

Just comparing two countries that were both colonized by Brits. One did better than the other. So I have questions. Population is a factor.

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rash-head t1_j6n32f4 wrote

India was the richest country in the world before colonization. You don’t have to wonder what happened. There’s plenty of research on how British Raj ruled India to enrich the homeland.

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