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This story makes me appreciate my situation as a Nigerian and respect the British more. My opinion on colonialism will be more nuanced than that of most westerners. On one hand, it was brutal in some ways but on the other it did play a huge role in bringing much of Africa into the modern age via introduction of modern tech, medicine, western education, and nation building. My country literally wouldn't exist without the British. For all the issues we face, most of us wouldn't ever dream of not having a country of our own.
Also, one major good it did was abolish slavery. I cannot be more thankful for the British using their naval power and economic might to suppress the slave trade in Africa. Oh, I know they partook in it for a time, themselves, but it existed here long before whites ever came to Africa. Even my own ancestors of the Edo kingdom were slavers. What makes the British different is that unlike other regional African and Arab powers, they had the cultural & religious framework, wisdom, humanity and courage to actually stop the evil of slavery even at huge cost to their economy.
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As a Nigerian, my opinion on colonialism will be more nuanced than that of most westerners. On one hand, it was brutal in some ways but on the other it did play a huge role in bringing much of Africa into the modern age via introduction of modern tech, medicine, western education, and nation building.
Also, one major good it did was abolish slavery. I cannot be more thankful for the British using their naval power and economic might to suppress the slave trade in Africa. Oh, I know they partook in it for a time, themselves, but it existed here long before whites ever came to Africa. Even my own ancestors of the Edo kingdom were slavers. What makes the British different is that unlike other regional African and Arab powers, they had the cultural & religious framework, wisdom, humanity and courage to actually stop the evil of slavery even at huge cost to their economy. God bless them.
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@ThermicLight Yeah, i know the British empire had slavery. And so did the Sokoto Caliphate, the Benin empire, The kingdom of Dahomey, Ottoman empire, Greater Zimbabwe etc. The British empire was the exception in that they ended slavery by force or diplomacy. They could have continued it like all the others but they didn't. I also know they didn't end slavery solely out of humanitarian reasons. So what? The fact that they ended it despite no serious moral reason, makes them better than every other empire or kingdom or place that practiced and still continues to practice slavery today. If you want to waste your time virtue-signaling or campaigning against slavery, why not focus on China, the middle east, north Africa etc, instead of wasting time talking about the British of the past?
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@manmaje3596 Oh, I do, believe me. But I keep it civil. He and I do not agree on many things (the same way he and his father didn't) For starters, he supports the MSM, BLM, and the establishment left (he literally calls Trump a white supremacist and tries to dissuade me from liking him and conservatives because CNN said so but at least he is heavily critical of obama) That being said, when he raised me in Nigeria, he really did a good job instilling conservative values in me like abhorring victimhood, embracing hard work, being an entrepreneur, having national pride and Christianity. It's only after we emigrated to Canada and I got older that he started sharing more of his youthful ideological leanings. I have learned to humor him and he has learned that I will not budge on my beliefs.
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@cesium7907trust me when i say that the indigenous Canadian population aka whlte people here, are in no danger of becoming a minority in this country despite what click bait sites would have you believe. Plus, despite what you think, they tend to heavily screen for immigrants who actually will fit in here i.e. they must ve able to speak English and embeace the Anglo-French culture of Canada. Finally, birthrates anong immigrants is as low as tgat among native Canadians, if not lower and with increasing scrutiny on their immigration system, there will be even more benchmarks before immigrants can be allowed in. I got in because i actually met those benchmarks😊 Also, considering how many other foreign people already emigrate to my birth country and get on well with us here, I'd say it's not an issue since our overarching national identity is one that facilitates easy assimilation i.e. we have one natioil language (English), we use a legal system based on the one from the British, and we also don't have the baggage of some countries like South Afr!ca that promotes xenophob!a. The main issues we have is insecurity.
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