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What would The Colonies be like if we still had them?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Canada isn't a british colony
It isn't?
I thought all those countries within the commonwealth are once british colonies?
Correct me please if I'm wrong."
No, some were protectorates and some were dominions. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Canada isn't a british colony
You realise the queen is still the recognised Sovereign of Canada right?"
Reslly ? Funny, cos i dont even recognise her as soverign of this country  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Canada isn't a british colony
You realise the queen is still the recognised Sovereign of Canada right?
Reslly ? Funny, cos i dont even recognise her as soverign of this country "
She's even on the money.
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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and a happy independence day to you lot too.... lol
I am going to a BBQ laid on by friends in the "american government" today.... the 3 hour round trip is worth it for the cracking hot dogs!!!!  |
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"Canada isn't a british colony
It isn't?
I thought all those countries within the commonwealth are once british colonies?
Correct me please if I'm wrong.
No, some were protectorates and some were dominions. "
Thank you..!!
Protected...not colonised.. |
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"and a happy independence day to you lot too.... lol
I am going to a BBQ laid on by friends in the "american government" today.... the 3 hour round trip is worth it for the cracking hot dogs!!!! "
Have fun fabs I loved independence day when I was living with the yanks I got the piss taken out of me BT all in good fun.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It's like Australia - the only country in the world where Apartheid worked.
If you notice, they killed most of the original inhabitants and then pushed the leftovers to the margins"
Excuse me??  there is no such apartheid there. Where do you base your opinion from?!
The indigenous Australians have never been treated like that. I went to school, worked and did traineeships with Aborigines throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. The ones that are 'pushed into the margins' choose to live there, as they want to preserve their traditional way of life. They have control of natural and sacred places like Uluru (Ayres Rock). And they get a lot of financial help compared to European Australians. |
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"It's like Australia - the only country in the world where Apartheid worked.
If you notice, they killed most of the original inhabitants and then pushed the leftovers to the margins
Excuse me?? there is no such apartheid there. Where do you base your opinion from?!
The indigenous Australians have never been treated like that. I went to school, worked and did traineeships with Aborigines throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. The ones that are 'pushed into the margins' choose to live there, as they want to preserve their traditional way of life. They have control of natural and sacred places like Uluru (Ayres Rock). And they get a lot of financial help compared to European Australians."
*coffs*
I think you'll find that Aborigines were only classed as something *other* than Flora and Fauna (I kid you not) in 1967.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_referendum,_1967_(Aboriginals)
It's a DEEPLY racist society.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We were working over in colorado with a couple of choppers. One night in a bar a local guy said to us "what's with the word 'Royal' on the side of your heleecptoors"? Without batting an eye my colleague told him "you're coming towards the end of your 300 year lease, we're over here seeing which parts we want back first!" needless to say he didnt have a sense of humour! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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It would be nice to think that if we still ran India there wouldnt be 2 nuclear equipped countries that hate each other and live next door to each other! We probably wouldn't let 500 people travel on top of a train. And I'm sure we wouldn't be to happy about them shitting in the street and contaminating the fresh water. Then of course would our liberal political nature let the poor make a living from going through the rubbish from the rich, while the government spends foreign aid cash on a space program? Id hope not.. |
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By *al2001Man
over a year ago
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"It would be nice to think that if we still ran India there wouldnt be 2 nuclear equipped countries that hate each other and live next door to each other! We probably wouldn't let 500 people travel on top of a train. And I'm sure we wouldn't be to happy about them shitting in the street and contaminating the fresh water. Then of course would our liberal political nature let the poor make a living from going through the rubbish from the rich, while the government spends foreign aid cash on a space program? Id hope not.."
India had 1 of the richest cultures and civilizations in the world before the british invaders came to plunder its resources and break its will
I'd like to see how they would be now if britian never got its greedy hands on it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It would be nice to think that if we still ran India there wouldnt be 2 nuclear equipped countries that hate each other and live next door to each other! We probably wouldn't let 500 people travel on top of a train. And I'm sure we wouldn't be to happy about them shitting in the street and contaminating the fresh water. Then of course would our liberal political nature let the poor make a living from going through the rubbish from the rich, while the government spends foreign aid cash on a space program? Id hope not.."
We did of course create Pakistan as a country though when we left so it's kinda our fault |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It would be nice to think that if we still ran India there wouldnt be 2 nuclear equipped countries that hate each other and live next door to each other! We probably wouldn't let 500 people travel on top of a train. And I'm sure we wouldn't be to happy about them shitting in the street and contaminating the fresh water. Then of course would our liberal political nature let the poor make a living from going through the rubbish from the rich, while the government spends foreign aid cash on a space program? Id hope not..
India had 1 of the richest cultures and civilizations in the world before the british invaders came to plunder its resources and break its will
I'd like to see how they would be now if britian never got its greedy hands on it"
Probably a lot worse off as the Chinese or Arabian empires would have had at them instead
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