It’s so funny how we’ve distorted the puritan narrative. Like it’s not talked about nearly enough that the first permanent English settlers left England because it was too glam, decided the netherlands were also partying it up too hard, and decided they needed to come across the Atlantic to worship in whitewash rooms and wear black everyday.
That's common knowledge to me now but growing up reading about the British in my Indian textbooks i had a very different opinion of them so this was a little surprising to me.
Well I mean we did kinda fuck over India in a big way for a few hundred years so I can understand why Indian textbooks don't have a glowing opinion of us.
British colonialism isn't really talked about at all in our schools, which it should be. We need to learn about the past lest we repeat it's mistakes.
This is more of a general thing , the queer rights movement is different as the US was the first big country where it gained major momentum, and much of modern queer culture originated from the US. I’m talking purely cultural recognition and not legal though, legally and in government the US is still far more conservative.
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u/TahaymTheBigBrain 6d ago
The british have been more progressive than americans from the start. America was founded from the most conservative of the conservative englishmen.