Lmao no. You seem like you have podcast brain.

Ireland and Wales are no where near where they would be without being colonised. Let alone states further from the core of the empire.

>The 20th century decline of the British empire is one of civilization's worst failures

Greatest successes. Honestly it could only be better if the britons pushed the angles and saxons back into the ocean.

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tonymet 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

it's a fair argument, and tips the scales a bit, but the balance is still overwhelmingly in favor

It's not like Ireland and Wales are doing much to preserve their legacies regardless. So it's hard, as an outsider, to intuit how much they actually care.

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wqaatwt 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Wales and in a large part Ireland were conquered long before British Empire was a thing, though.

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protocolture 5 days ago | parent [-]

The correct labels werent yet applied it doesnt count!

Bear in mind that a lot of the bad policies only started to be repealed in like the 60s. And that among other things, both suffered through a lot of the forced cultural assimilation the british empire was peddling.

	▲	wqaatwt 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well yes, because medieval England or England in the 1500s was in many ways a fundamentally different state than the United Kingdom was in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.