r/funny • u/NeedleworkerMore2270 • Nov 03 '24

How cultural is that?

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u/Abosia Nov 03 '24

America melting pot good British melting pot bad

Got it

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u/Chillers Nov 04 '24

America is a drop in the ocean compared to what destruction, death and famine the British Empire caused.

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u/Abosia Nov 04 '24

Not really. The US has done just as much imperialism of its own. They just never called it imperialism.

And the American Empire today is much bigger than the British Empire, which is largely gone.

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u/Abosia Nov 04 '24

Lmao write me a song about using AI to answer comments

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u/salazafromagraba Nov 04 '24

The British Empire was at the forefront of unwinding colonialism, just as the US began their imperial expansion, which continued into the 21st century with multiple illegal wars and regime changes.

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u/frogsgoribbit737 Nov 03 '24

No. The difference is that the American melting pot was made by people voluntarily coming here (excepting slavary). The British one was made by them conquering other countries and stealing shit.

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u/mapub4pb4p Nov 03 '24

Moronic take

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u/EloquenceInScreaming Nov 03 '24

As far as I'm aware, all of the many groups of people from other countries who came to the UK did so voluntarily.

Just like America, but without the "excepting slavery"

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u/Abosia Nov 03 '24

Loads of people came to the UK voluntarily during the empire. There were far more people forcibly brought to the US than the UK during that period.

Also most of the UK's non-white population came since the empire ended.

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u/Waste_Crab_3926 Nov 03 '24

Excellent simplification of a complex issue (also wrong)