Reply to London is HORRIBLE

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "London is HORRIBLE"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I LOVE London. Chic, great shopping, great fun vibe. People are mean as sh*t in a very polite way. It's actually kind of weird. British food is disgusting, but there are so many other options! Love the place. Would move in a minute. [/quote]

Eat Indian subcontinent food there.  That is the only decent and affordable food there.

[b]BTW - England became a developed nation because of how they looted 45 trillion dollars worth of materials from India during their colonial rule. 
[/b]
Without India to loot, they have become a shithole country. A small country of shopkeepers.   And the poverty there is another level now. Unwashed brits with yellow teeth, unwashed clothes and dirty fingernails, unable to afford air-conditioning and eating baked beans from a can. [/quote]

Flat out wrong.

The vast majority of the wealth in 19th century Britain was from the domestic market. It was the *first* country to undergo the industrial revolution. Far more wealth came out of the coal mines and canals and mills and shipping of Northern Britain than out of India or any other colonies. The colonial trade was lucrative to an extent but the scale of wealth you imagine flowing to Britain at the expense of the colonies never existed. Britain tried to make India a consumer market for British goods and to an extent did suppress, or rather, not foster the growth of Indian industries, but we're talking about peanuts. Most colonies were a net drain on Britain, including India. They were the luxury symbols of the time.

The sugar colonies of the West Indies were much more lucrative for the British coffers and money used to fund the Napoleonic wars. But the Indian obsession is largely a "what if" myth invented by Indian nationalists based on the weak argument that if Britain had not been in India somehow that subcontinent of warring fiefdoms and kingdoms and decaying Mughal empires and sharp sectarian divides between Hindus and Muslims would have peacefully united and transformed itself into an industrial power (without the technological knowledge or even raw resources of northern Europe of the time). It's a nice fantasy. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics