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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15051)12/29/2001 10:31:03 PM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
And some Americans read Howard Zinn, openly question authority of any stripe, and can still maintain sufficient objectivity to acknowledge that Gandhi's methods would be useless against, say, Hitler or Pol Pot, but were very effective against a reasonably civilized UK, whose colonization did introduce positives to the natives left behind all over the world.

I mean, we'd lack baseball today if the Brits had not given us that raw root of cricket for us to refine. <GG>

But my cheeky example should not undercut my support for your point. British colonization aided modernization, despite its downside. The Western concepts of charity, for example, had British roots.
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