The Messed Up Truth About The British Empire
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- The idea of the benevolent British Empire is pure myth. From ruthlessly crushing rebellion, to abetting the murders of indigenous peoples, to allowing its colonial subjects to starve, the history of the Empire is, to put it mildly, pretty messed up.
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The Irish Potato Famine | 0:00
Australia's Aboriginal peoples | 1:34
Concentration camps in South Africa | 3:02
The Opium Wars | 4:04
The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre | 4:50
The Bengal Famine of 1943 | 6:04
The bombing of Iraq | 7:28
The Partition of India | 8:34
The British Terror in Kenya | 9:44
Operation Legacy | 11:24
Voiceover By: Tim Bensch
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What would you say is the worst thing the British Empire has done during its time?
Everything
The worst thing the British Empire did was to lay the foundation for the United States to exist in the first place and allow them to become independent... despite how bad Britain was, the US is FAR worse...
Allowing the USA to
No mention of how the British empire went back on their agreements with the arabs, occupied their land, tortured and killed any opposition and aided in the establishing of Israel. Their mess is still felt today.
Leaving poor countries to fend for themselves and let authoritarian regimes basically rule their citizens against their will.
The Australian constitution only recognised Indigenous people as human in the 1970s
The good old days
Irony….transported criminals, themselves barely exhibiting human traits , n they had the nerve to question others’ being human…their accent is sooooooooo lowclass but the tenenent dwellers that they had been in England, dictated said…
They were still being hunted in the 50's.Pure evil.
@@domgould5113 they were very evil, some of the hardest to hunt down
Wow! Even the US gave Native Americans citizenship in 1925 and the last state gave them the right to vote in 1957.
"It says here in this history book, that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?” - Norm MacDonald
How about a similar video about American rule? The countries they have invaded. Their treatment of American Indians, slavery, Jim Crow and Vietnam.
And the forever wars in the middle east.
Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iran, Panama, Guam, and Greneda. All had wars / coups because leaders were turning towards socialism or nationalisation of natural resources.
Then there's is the 'Bay of Pigs' attempted invasion of Cuba and the war in Korea.
The Irish population went up six-fold in the two centuries under British rule before the potatoes famine. If the British get the blame for perhaps a million famine deaths, do they get the credit for the extra 6 million Irish who appeared under their recent rule? Context is needed.
All empires, whether they use the name Empire or not tend to be cruel.
cruel is an understatement
Cumin needs to be crushed to get the flavour...old Bherber saying.
Man's inhumanity to man. Excellent and thought-provoking.
The Amritsar Massacre involved the deaths of perhaps 1,000 people. The Indian population had much more more than doubled during British paramountcy in India from about 180 million to some 380 million. Context is needed.
No mention of what they did to the scottish? I'm surprised.
Scottish rebelled against the crown. Their king.
Because despite how bad Britain was, the US is FAR worse.
Also Scotland WASN'T conquered unjustly, they legally and officially joined and peacefully united with englad in 1701 to form the UK. The king was Scottish, so in order for him to succeed the throne, he had to unite both kingdoms. What was done to Scotland was done by SCOTTISH KINGS... not British rulers technically speaking.
The Scottish aren’t victims.
@@evanneal4936 it was 1707 the act of union came into effect under a Queen not a King and Scotland was bankrupt at that point, it couldn't raise an army to stop it if it wanted to (though there were armed protests in Glasgow, Lanark and Dumfries I believe but that doesn't help with the fact the lords, church and merchants were bought off with concessions. Just like Indian rulers were, just like African ones were, etc etc - you think a tiny nation like Britain keep that size of Empire together as long as it did on fire and shot alone?).
The union of the Crowns was in 1603 and that was a Scottish born King, I'll give you. The Jacobite rebellion in 1745 to put a King born in the UK back on the throne was against one was born and raised in Germany. Also Cromwell did invade Scotland to subjugate it in 1650-1652.
That is before we get into Scotland also suffered under the potato famine, the break up of the clan system and the Highland clearances. The North of England got it as did Wales to lesser degrees than Ireland but we still got it. Things are more complicated than you and this video are making out and peaceful is always a matter of degrees.
When considering Boer deaths in British concentration camps, it needs to be remembered that the British Army suffered a similar order of magnitude of non-battle deaths. It should also be noted that when proper facilities were put into the camps, the death rate fell below that in Glasgow (so-called "Second City of the Empire"). Context is needed.
The tip of the iceberg.The real cruelty was in the daily snobbery and arrogance.Its what caught up with them.Its what catches up with all greedy untouchables.Its goiung on today.The world is slowly changing.
No mention of what they did to the North American Native people in Canada?
That's because despite how bad Britain was, the US is FAR WORSE.
For some perspective I recommend you watch " 1923 "
@@ricklee5845 thank you for the recommendation. My mom and her siblings are survivors of the residential schools. So I have heard tons of horror stories of what happened in those schools. Schools that the government started because they wanted to rid of the "savage Indian". But thank you for the recommendation. I will be watching that!
@@evanneal4936 do you mean with what is happening right now? Or in the past? Please explain
@@Atimoskisk You're most welcome. 1923 is the second prequel to 'Yellowstone' and 1883 is the first. I thought I mention it so you can get your bearings if you need to.
Some of the biggest perpetrators of white American expansion like Custer and Bill Cody are still revered today.
You might also be interested in a wonderful documentary called "The American Buffalo". It is very sad.
The communal bloodshed in India and Pakistan largely occurred AFTER independence and was not committed by the British, who were about the only people actively trying to oppose it. Nor were the new borders "arbitrary" and they have not changed since, except in Kashmir. The British did not advocate Partition. India's Muslim leaders did and its Hindu leaders reluctantly accepted it. Context is needed.
I am not defending the British empire, I grew up in a former British colony. There were schools all over the island, next to every church, mosque or temple almost. As an adult. I was reading about the Angolan independence and I learned that the Portuguese only built churches. I viewed British colonialism a little differently since then. Empires are brutal by definition. The Aztecs beat up on all of their neighbours, until the Spanish Conquistadors beat them up, then the British beat the Spanish. As one of the people who die in the collateral damage of 'empire', I think it is progress that I now have options for who will exploit my grandchildren and steal our resources. I expect at the next election, parties will be sponsored by China, Russia, US and UK.
The British where a lovely group compared to the Japanese and Belgium empires
Thats like the zionists saying Gaza is ok,cos the US and UK did lots worse during the world wars.Helas,you are right tho.Evil is evil,even if bigger evil happened elsewhere.
Very little rice was diverted to the front lines. Rice was not a part of normal British rations and Egypt supplied the Middle East Theatre. The Malaya campaign involved only about 70,000 Indian troops, who would have been eating the same amount of rice if kept in India. The same is true of all other fronts where Indian troops served. There was no net loss of rice to Indians because Indian troops were sent overseas.
The initial rice shortage was caused by the fact that significant quantities of Indian rice was imported from Burma and Egypt. Burma was over run by the Japanese in early 1942, cutting off imports from there entirely. Egypt couldn't get much nitrate for fertiliser from Chile due to wartime shipping shortages, so its production and exports fell.
Context is needed.
@GrungeHQ could you create a video about The Messed Up Truth About The American Empire
Coming next week in this theater:
The Messed Up Truth About The American Empire
there are numerous of slave movies in America about it, but none of Europe or great Britain and what they did.
Committed genocide for centuries
They are still proffiting from slavery.
@@domgould5113 I'm not surprised
Great to see all of this finally being acknowledged.
It’s all been acknowledged previously , it’s not been a surprise I hope 😂
When will we get this video about the US? They are 100% a colonial empire by the legal definition of it. They did identical to the British empire but to native American tribes: stole land, deported people, killed them, whether deliberately or not, forced migration to reservations, deliberately killed off all the Buffalo for no reason except to hurt the tribes, they oppress the power of individual states and citizens, etc, etc. It's not only wrong and messed up to condemn a foreign country for doing something we did as well, but also, bias and hypocritical... if you want to pick on the British empire, you have to pick on the American empire as well... if Britain has to pay reparations, etc, then so should the usa. Also, FYI, you can't technically claim to be the richest and most powerful nation if you stole all your wealth and power from others like the US did... if the US actually paid off all the debt they owe and never exploited or illegally ripped off others, they wouldn't be so rich and powerful. It's all by coincidence and via exploitation...
The problem with the American Empire is that it is rooted in the same foolish belief of superiority, just like the British Empire. Superiority provides an endless stream of justification.
But looking at America, there is also a similarity with the Roman Empire.
Under Marcus Aurelius Rome was prosperous. When his son Commodus snatched the throne, things started to go sour. He complacently and carelessly underestimated the Christians and by proxy was responsible for Rome being split in two. The Catholic church in the West and later Islam in the East with Constantinople as the capital city.
The decay set in and we can read about the details in history books.
In comparison, America always had that same religion, imported by Europeans who came to Virginia, in other words, the colonies and settlements were doomed from the beginning. America is rampant with religions and cults competing with each other and even today, if you say that you don't believe in a god you are automatically branded a socialist or communist.
Nowhere else in the 'civilized' world are normal citizens so ostracised because they refuse to toe the line.
For above mentioned reasons, I have long come to the conviction that ultimately America will go the same way as the Roman Empire.
STOP SHIFTING THE BLAME…THIS VIDEO IS ABOUT BRITAIN WERIDO
@@six6thdisciple Easy now cowboy, learn how to read (and spell) before you run your mouth off.
But they have free healthcare!
Even america broke off from the british empire Now UK is one of America's biggest allies.It's all complicated
They only broke off because they didn't want the bad reputation, not that it was bad for them to do
Dont forget the Normans.
Name an “empire” that provided the world with nothing but unicorns and rainbows
If the monster raving loony party got into British politics who knows 😂
Thats alright then
No empire but What’s the point of this question? Is this another what aboutism
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In general your pronunciations are good except Sikh is pronounced "seek" not "sick".
One of the worst empires in history and basically the worst people in history for a long time
The atrocities that the British Empire committed over hundreds of years is Needless to say, Truly Horrible- However, If you guys did a video on the atrocities that other Empires committed, even smaller groups of people, like how some Native American tribes had and brutalized slaves brought from Africa, or that certain tribes in Africa played a Huge role in the selling of their own people, the video would probably be over 2 hours long
native Americans tribes are long gone and have been slaughtered by white people long time ago, Africans traded slave laborer's I doubt they though it would have this lasting affect it has now, that's why Ghana gave black Americans citizenship. The point is you are still reaping the benefits of what your ancestor's did back then, he only glossed over what happened they ruined generations without giving black people or ingenious reparations.
Whats funny is Kenyans we're never as productive or wealthy as they we're under British rule.
Yep that's the brits for ya, just like the americans...
@GrungeHQ could you create a video about The Messed Up Truth About The American Empire