How Did the West REALLY Get So Rich? Not through Slavery. Genius of Western Civilization - Episode 5
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2023
- The West is the New Culture Forum's landmark six-part documentary series exploring the history, achievements and genius of Western civilisation. Inspired by legendary TV programmes such as Civilisation, Kenneth Clark's 1969 masterpiece, The West is a bold reminder of who we are -- and why our culture is worth defending.
Episode 5: How Did The West REALLY Get So Rich?
Beginning with the age of exploration, this episode plunges into the West’s tumultuous and at times traumatic expansion out of Europe. From the accidental discovery of the Americas to the British Empire’s ending of the slave trade, Marc Sidwell offers a nuanced account of the West’s imperial and colonial phase. He also demolishes the persistent myth that slavery and plunder made the West rich, revealing instead the real answer: economic growth powered by industrial capitalism.
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Episode 5: How Did The West Get So Rich?
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it is apparent that it is easier to condemn the behaviour of people who are long dead than to try to meet their standards
Can somebody please send this to the BBC?
Why? It contains no minds open enough to understand the message.
They wouldn't show it.
They'd drop it and leave the room screaming.
What for please ?
To win the - 'I bought a college degree 🎓 so I don't need to put anything between my two ears 🧠' - award of the Century ?
(Guns, Germs and Steel 📙 by Jared Diamond 🇺🇸)
Mr Lionel Ramsal
We don't have a BBC anymore. There is a BPC (British Propaganda Corporation) however, but unsurprisingly it has a dwindling following and in all likelihood will collapse within the next year or two.
Thomas Sowell argues that slavery was not because of racism. It only became about race once it was firmly established in the West
Up until then , people were enslaved because of their vulnerability , he goes on to state .
This series is really interesting and thought provoking. By far it reaffirms my pride in being from the west and yet does not reduce my worry for the attacks on our way of life. Our sense of right and fairness is in some ways a weakness. It was heartening to learn much about how hard the west worked towards abolishing the Atlantic slave trade and how slavery has been endemic in most cultures
Middle Eastern slavery was longer
Ottoman empire was terrible and Chinese, congo, sudan and Indian and Pakistan still have slavery
if some people in today's society feel this part of the world is not enough then Leave for a short while, live somewhere else so know the difference instead of behaving like a spoilt brat. if you can't appreciate what you have, then be silent and stop denigrating the good things we have. the world is good place if you let it be
This should be shown in schools. Our reaction to that idea shows us how bad things really are.
Shown in universities
Innovation and opportunities is important
Which isn't much in the eastern countries
Things are better than ever before.
@@mism847 in which country
So true i will never be ashamed to be part of the West. Freedom is everything. Nothing to apologise for.
Industrial revolution inventions 🇬🇧 benefits everyone
This just gets better and better.
This needs to be both a book and available on digital hard copy ❤️
Except it doesn't just keep getting better and better but is interrupted by reversals. The business cycle and the world wars. It is Marx who put economy and human history on a materialist scientific basis. It is his analysis that reveals the origins of the reversals. The direction that capitalist development takes and why it will come to an end. Had Britain NOT experienced a banking crisis would it have gone to war with Germany and how wise was it to impose the Treaty of Versailles upon Germany?
This needs to be taught in all schools in all languages in Western countries.
Every school child should watch this series. Fantastic
It took the west 1500 years to grind through everything and end up with a civilised way of life. But then we gave everything away to people who haven't gone through the same development, who were living with the same mentality as they were living 2000 years ago. That's why, when countries who claimed independence back from the UK, they seem to revert back to their old ways and never progress any further.
@ChubbsmackenzieMacDonald-lt3lk really, have you been to banana estate, Lagos to see how much better some people that are genetic leaving much better than you are in London ect. China has made Hong Kong 100 times better than UK gave it back, or is it Singapore. Some puedoscience bs, maybe mike Tyson is much smarter than a university lecturer, that why David b has a perfume that some very educated lots are under him employed or doctors working for a footballer that built a hospital. Some gulf states at birth, the kids are already millionaire. Some bs about nonsense genetics, eugenics nonsense. Please Check the index, the money has moved eastwards, clearly the reason for engineering a conflict, broke western world.
@Chubbsmackenzie Mac Donald Racist. Tell the Chinese that crap.
@Invictus Simple, they would stay the hell away and not clamour over in small boats to illegally enter our way of life.
@@Idomealways.. The inability to create a democratic,stable society.
@Wayfinder
They seem to really, really like it when they get on boats to get to Europe, thousands, and thousands of them.
Africa, could be the richest continent in the world, but for the absolute, sheer corruption, and tribal mentality, of its leaders.
Another simple reason the West is able to rise above the rest is because we were willing to challenge authority of others AND our own. Also we believe in our own education, which helped bring about great thinkers and great engineers and scientists.
We did
Or we can say looting from India and China made them what they are and making both of them as a client state for western products.
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Bullshit- It's were slavery - WELL STREET were built on the back of SLAVERY in New York.. (BANKS) , BANK OF AMERICA, WELL FARGO, BIG BANKS WERE BUILD ON BLOOD, BLACK BODIES....RAILROADS money from Slavery, etc...BREEDING FARMS 😢😢 Audition BLOCKS..
Superb. I hope ( a vain hope?) that this series reaches the widest audience, especially the young of the next generation.
The BBC used to do stuff lile this. James Burke's Connections was simply pure genious.
The loss of confidence is the worst
I was once told, if I was going to be a student of history, in order to understand I need to be able to look at it from the mindset/lens of the era I am studying. It has been once of the most profound pieces of advice I was ever given. It appears to me that the way social studies/ history is being taught today does appear not do that, its disheartening. What I want to know is why are so many in this day and age especially wanting to teach such subjects in such an ignorant way?
Absolutely brilliant episode in a fantastic series! Well done NCF
This should be mandatory in all schools.
THANK YOU for the continuation of this magnificent series. I have inherited the benefits of Western genius, yet note that a large part has been British. (Rule of Law, Isaac Newton, Shakespeare, Jane Austin, ....)
Michael Faraday, Henry Purcell, Edward Jenner, Robert Hooke, Arthur benison Hubback, Ronald Ross, Joseph Wilson swan, Tim Berners Lee
This is a brilliant episode in a mind- blowing series. Well done .
I hope that the real western culture will be saved. Keep up the good work.
You cannot save Western culture if you do not save Western people.
@History Channel it's time the west started culture revival
It won't africa is now Europe and it'll turn into africa
The infrastructure needs to be maintained by people who comprehend it. It takes more innovation than forever naming children after a prophet to be independent enough. Many countries have imported Western contractors and labour to construct, operate and maintain infrastructures. They've been able to achieve this through crude oil, which needed Western equipment to extract and export. For an historically innovative and industrious people, China seems to incredibly reliant on espionage and reverse engineering.
@History Channel i am disappointed that you want only the “Catholic” recognized. I am not a catholic non am I a Christian, but having descended from some of the first settlers who fled religious persecution it was NOT just the Catholics who founded the western civilization. Jesus did not found the catholic religion it was men. This is why the heretics are able to dismantle the western culture, because it should be all who believe in the greatness of the western civilization that stand together against the demonic forces.
This series really should be more readily available for all to watch and learn from.
Then isn’t UA-cam the best solution for that?
@@darkhelmet6274 yes, but I was thinking if we had an impartial mainstream media they would be broadcasting this. Really is invaluable, particularly with the upcoming Coronation.
@@markhenry192 I dont disagree with you.. but where do we find a large enough impartial mainstream media source greater than UA-cam that would actually play this? Honestly... this should be played and taught to everyone... I just think in todays world... UA-cam is the place it will most likely thrive in
@@darkhelmet6274 yes agree, UA-cam is the only place available. Just a shame mainstream media do not show the same degree of loyalty and patriotism. This is in contrast to many other countries that are proud to openly display a love and pride of country.
@@markhenry192 I agree, its a shame and I do not like where its taking society. Every civilization has its history, but ours has done so much and deserves to be understood, respected and celebrated.. its just odd that this is seemed "wrong" these days
The West grew out of innovation, competition, and broad cultural agreement across the continent. Over my lifetime that culture has degenerated into a toxic politically correct cult. You can't have mass immigration and retain social and cultural cohesion, you can't have enforced multi-cultural equity and inclusion and retain free speech and liberty. I don't think you can have economic security if you export the jobs and expertise out of the country, that only increases dependency. I am all for win-win international cooperation but It seems to me that the West is being undermined by the self-serving globalism and unipolar ambitions of a controlling Western oligarchy who are only interested in protecting their immense wealth, power, and reach.
And save yourself from eastern propaganda
Because India, turkey and China news lie the most
Though they immigrate to USA Australia UK Canada
Exactly. It’s not “the people” doing this-at least, they’re not the leaders and instigators of it-they don’t even understand that they’re being complicit in their own doom-it’s those at the top -wealth, political power, or whatever power they hold-who are promoting this in their own interests. I suppose they require more acquiescent peons, and not many of those.
Absolutely Fantastic production. Had no idea this was part of an episodic series. Gotta watch the rest now.
I am totally fed up of the current ideology of Brit Bashing
Me too, as a third generation British Australian. Woke culture has poisoned Australia too, and the seething hatred of our Judeo-Christian foundations are unmistakable, especially since the October 7 genocidal attack on Israel.
Excellent series. This pulled lots of what I already knew and some that I didn’t and wove it into solid and coherent praise for western civilisation.
I am surprised that you didn't point out that a lot of the ships were owned by private companies and a lot of the trade was done by private companies. How they can blame an entire countries people over groups of privately owned companies making industry with primitive civilisations.
J’s
Because those "PRIVATE" companies owned the states!!!!
Why is France p**d of with Niger coup???
Because Niger's Uranium is not going to France anymore.
Please stop being naive.😊
This is one of the best and most engrossing documentary series that I've ever seen, and is essential viewing for everyone in this post Plandemic, woke world.
Thank you.
This is very refreshing and informative. This should be taught in schools.
Would be also good to discuss how things got so bad currently trying to buy english made clothing and I unable, higg Street to high end everything is made outside of uk
Ho! How about socialism and the warfare welfare state? Burdening domestic production with about a 50% cost overhead...
Buy British fabric and get it made up. You can find seamstresses not charging fortunes. It will fit perfectly, too.
@@annabizaro-doo-dah where do you even get english fabrics
@@unwaw Google it!
I love it how western exceptional innovativeness and progress is always credited by some people to "money from collonnies".
Only Japan and south Korea in the east were innovative
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Douglas, this is such a great channel every single video piece is an absolute BANGER :)
Amazing series. Great job.
Well summarized!
This series is fabulous! It and the truths and ideas it conveys deserve and warrant more attention. I believe our future depends on it.
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This is fascinating, even though I already knew this because I read a lot of history. I wish somehow they could make a verse that is simplified, for the general digestion. Younger people don’t have the attention span and we need to get this information to them in a “tiktok” world. Thanks for the great show.
Waiting for the next episode
Thank you, thank you, one and all.
Excellent work folks !
Bravo! More documentaries like this, only a cynical monster who worships Lenin and his world view could think this is anything but a decent and hopeful story, people trading and inventing!
25 years ago this in depth analyses would of been on Daytime Telivision now all we get is so called celebs eating kangerooss bollocks and more football ? Then came tony blairs disasterous reign on so callwd socialism ? This type of coverage is eye opwning and mind expanding never give up keep making programes like this excellant work
This is woefully underviewed.
Great documentary series , we’ll done NCF !
Praps the well off people that bang on about this could give some of their assets away. There’s plenty of working poor that have NO wealth, yet are cited as the problem.
Most young people have always sought conflict and challenged authority, but their environment has changed. For most the difficulties of life and being surrounded by adults quickly tempered that, but that's changed. By historical terms, life for most western youth is a paradise; leaving them to look for conflict, exaggerate and invent current conflict and oppression from whole cloth. There is no check on them, as a whole they avoid interaction with others, any responsibility and live in an echo chamber of validation for their wildest claims and excuses. The morally criminal part is the adults that promote and profit from this, those that sell the myths of slavery and racism as currently taught and so much more.
Not to mention, people are “growing up” socially at later and later ages.
Excellent.
Good weather for dinghy divers and the r n I i people smuggling service
Very good video .
Something that was normal and illegal at the time should not be retrospectively judged by modern standards, only described
Excellent series.
Amazing video .. I wish kids all over the world could understand these ideas about the great achievements of capitalism and how Britain and then the West made possible our current world
Brilliant, thank you 👍🇬🇧
Amen and Hallelujah ❤
The idea that Western powers came up with idea of abolishing slavery spontaneously on their own is taking credit where its not due. The ideas that led to that came from the cultures discovered in the Americas. It was plains native American culture that gave the world the ideas of "all men being equal" and even the ideas of both federation and (modern) democracy have their origins from Iroquois and Penacook tribes. Many powerful social and individual philosophical concepts were assimilated into European culture through contact with the native Americans. It's just that Europeans never gave credit to where these ideas came from as mostly they were considered hostile or inferior cultures.
After wiping out the native Americans and their way of life
To the founding fathers owning, buying selling black slaves.
Even when the USA abolished slavery American owners continued to own , buy sell black slaves for another 40 years.
What credit does your country deserve ?
Lolol your taking the piss m8
The concept of all men being equal was not unknown before encountering Iroquois or Penacook tribes, are you nuts? The new American form of government was based on centuries of British precedent such as Magna Carta, for one thing. And the Iroquois, among many other Indian tribes, practiced slavery. New World indigenous people practiced slavery upon each other long before they ever set eyes upon Europeans. And many tribes-the Cherokee for one-also held black African slaves.
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children.
- Thomas Sowell
Nothing like what I thought I would br watching, yet fasinating. Everyone needs to watch this.
This video projects capitalism as a recent phenomenon that started after the industrial revolution.
However international trade and exchange of goods ,profit making has existed since times immemorial.
In pre colonial times Indian muslin fabric was quite popular among European aristocrats.
Making a profit is not capitalism, capitalism is increasing capital by the factory division of labour.
Shared!
Excellent series, keep up the good work .
The speaker at 27.00 refers to the poverty of the British people at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, without speaking to the Enclosures that drove hundreds of thousands of peasants from their subsistence lifestyles into 'pauperism' on the streets of London.
Do the behaviors os past peoples need excuses? No. It's history
What we are doing today will be condemned in the future. But should the people of the future, who are not born yet, pay for it?
I have only watched 7 minutes so far and I have chores to do so I will save this for later. My grandparents were Methodist christians here in Australia. They seemed to choose the lifestyle of just enough on a small rural property. They always seemed to have enough and they both lived till they were 88. The west today seems to have gone more secular and expansionist always wanting more. I believe the true value in the past of western- ness is the ability to accept people of various values. This globalisation push will dilute or kill this ideal.
My heart swells with pride when I see what my country, Scotland, has given the world. When I look at today's Scotland I am ashamed and realise that is why I live 1,000 miles away in South Eastern Europe.
What have they given the world?
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Telivision, telephones, penicillin, MRI, Refrigerators, Hypodermic Syringes, The Steam Engine.
Just to name a few.
@@KingFancyson Well said mate.
@@KingFancysonsteam engine is James watt and George Stephenson
The West and in particular Britain had Christianity as the guide for its laws & culture. Since WWll leaders and society in general gradually dropped Christianity and parallel to that the West has been in decline until today we see a English king being crowned for the first time since 973 that the ceremony has substantial sharing with other religions that looks like the braking of the 1st & 2nd commandments. When Israel did the same it suffered terribly. I fear for Britain and the West.
Christianity did guide Britain well in all the genocides, plunder, loot and destruction it caused around the world.
Britain has been in decline because it lost its colonies. The sources of plunder and indentured labor declined and Britain became a second rate power.
Asmi Rann: unfortunately you have a warped view of the British empire. For a start it was the only empire that planned it's demise, it was British Christianity that gave it the ability to spread democracy throughout the world (originally Greek), British Christianity that provided the education for all that it took to much of the world, British Christianity that took Christianity to much of the world giving it schools, hospitals etc. All of which has reduced poverty and disease improving and saving lives far beyond anything we can imagine and while I recognise that it got some things horribly wrong overall the world should thank Britain for its role in the world's modernisation. As for the decline, as I have said planned decline, of the empire causing our current problems it is the rejection of Christianity by the population and today 6-5-23 the Crown of Christianity that is causing the demise of Britain itself, if there were to be revival of Christianity in Britain you would see a very different country as I did in the 1940 & 1950s. The benefits are too many to detail here.
@@asmirann3636 It's only in the past 3 centuries when Europe dominated the world, the average life expectancy of human being increased from 30 to 70, average per-capita increased from 600 dollars to 16,000 dollars, democracy starts to spread to more than hundred countries. Just look at how the world grew( in terms of science, technology) during the past 300 years and compare it with before European dominance on the world to understand how Europe changed the world.
@@frederickrevell843 Odd that Britain is the only country being demonised for slavery, despite the fact that it got the trade stopped at great expense to itself. However, those who criticise Britain seem to be quite happy with the slave trading which continues today
@@asmirann3636
What happened has nothing to do with Christianity.
It was greed, and power.
Unlike Islam that thrives on power, violence, and intimidation to this day.
There will never be peace on the Earth while the Quran exists.
It is violent, dangerous, retrograde, and immoral.
One of the greatest ironies of history that I’m thankful for as a leftist is how the British empire managed to stamp out so much slave trading activity because of their colonial and economic power in the 19th century. Yeah, I’m anti-imperialism, but if it kills slavers, I’ll look the other way. I never bought into cultural relativism. Some ideas and traditions aren’t worth keeping.
it's incredible how we are being destroyed and I can't see it ever turning. Even the NHS has got in the act !!
Thanks
it is important to recognize that the Western perspective is not the only perspective and that other cultures have their own unique contributions to make. By respecting cultural differences and recognizing the contributions of other cultures, we can avoid reinforcing the idea that the Western perspective is superior and broaden our understanding of the world
Hardly, all we hear is how great these lesser cultures are, its important that the anti western propaganda is revealed for nonsense it really is. The undeniable achievements of the West needs to be heard so people, in the West, can appreciate what they have.
Recognising contribution from other cultures is fine but, we must also be free to criticise and discard those aspects of other people's cultures that could be damaging to our own. It is the only way to protect what we most cherish of our own European civilisation.
@@skadiwarrior2053It would be amazing but the reality is the west cannot help but interfere in others affairs and have been doing so for centuries now.
There are many aspects of western culture which are objectively superior-ie I’d have stamped out suttee too, no matter how “disrespectful “ of Indian culture it was.
The freedom for competition to produce the best possible product or service at the best possible price.
This is the source of all economic wealth
The draining of investment in education cannot have had no effect. We are vulnerable to ignorance because we pay school teachers less than refuse collectors.
We sell university education on the basis it will provide access to higher pay, NOT more rewarding lives.
Grievance studies course lead to jobs for life at universities and large corporations simoly because those employing them are too ignorant to see through their shell game swindle.
Identifying and Differentiating to Integrate and Transcend ❤️💚💜
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Oh the wokies would go into meltdown if this went viral...
Excellent. Inspiring. But have we now peaked? Does the future belong to the BRIC nations?
Not yet. China still can’t even remotely feed itself, and their currencies are in no way close to being the global currency.
These Speakers are the Real Patriots,and should be in UK Parliament as MPs.
Their voices are badly needed in Westminster.
I was at school during the 60s until the end of the 70s
We learned about the Vikings in Ireland ( Dublin) had one of the biggest white slave markets in the known world.
Should it really matter? We are taking about culture - i.e. "how things are done here" from 200 years ago. In the same way that no-one takes issue with the Ottoman Empire, or indeed the invasion/colonisation of Britain over the last 2000 years, we do NOT need to apologise for what our great x 7 grandparents might have done. That was then, this is now.
Absolutely correct, that was, this is now.
Except you whites of European countries are still killing black people, in illegal proxy wars, you are still treating black people in violent ways like George Floyd, and still stealing our wealth out of Africa, ie, France are still taking 85% of ex colonial countries wealth and loaning that same money back. You lot are outrageously despicable people to say what you are saying and trying to absolve yourselves of any responsibility.
But I suppose you don't want to see yourselves as the evil people you really are.
So ottoman empire did make slaves of white Europeans. So the ham curse is bs, it's seems that what been admitted.
Don’t punish the son, for the sins of the father.
French, vikings, Barbary pirates and roman empire invaded Britain right
This rebuttal is very overdue--
as you well know.
Tom Holland's Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. Says it all. 😁
It should be noted that the word “slave” itself comes from “Slav”
I'd say the Iron bridge is VERY "dainty": like lace infact.
By using their brains, evolving and hard work.. 🤷♀️🤷♂️
There are two histories unfolding in the Modern world (Remember Orwell 'Double Think' and 'New Speak'?) There's what happened and the limited understanding we have of it, based on the limited information that has been archived and then there's political history, the "My group identity is better than yours" narrative, like old tribal conflicts based on vengeance, avenging injustices of the past. A very old concept that modern thinkers, intellectuals have dug up and given a fresh red coat of paint.
Because the west is smarter and more disciplined - by a long way!!!
Even if India's wealth was "drained" by the UK, who let that happen?
What other nation objected or would have done otherwise?
They doing the same today in Iraq, Libya ect.. Let that happen you ask, it's a gangster lane world.
India benefits from the rail and English education and sports
Appreciation for the material world is 1 of the main reason for material achievement
Nice. Needs more Klavan 🤷♂️
6:50 music???
I would disagree that people chose urbanisation. People don't like change, and the land enclosure act was a change they tried their best to resist. I will agree that the industrial revolution was in the long run a great thing, but in the short term it certainly had many victims who had their choices made for them!
Very sad, and very English, that the 300 years of Spanish empire are omitted. Spain created in America an empire similar to that of Alexander the Great, where all its citizens had equal rights, where huge investment was made (just look at how many unesco sites Spain left in the continent) where a mixed race society was encouraged, where local cultures were respected despite the fact that Spain brought the local population from Stone Age to European Renaissance in one generation. Just 50 years after the conquest of Mexico and Peru there were universities opened for the sons of the local elites that were mostly mixed race with Spanish and sons of Indian caciques joining as well. There were public hospitals and schools and in the 18 century Mexico and Lima were far richer than Madrid. This was truly remarcable and sadly ignored here.
Capitalism incentivizes the accumulation of wealth and power, which can lead to the concentration of market power in the hands of a few large corporations.
Yep, its been happening for years, soon only a few billionaires will own everything,
Cause and time slavery was then in the west now we have made our western cultrue no need for slave labor 😊💯
overexaggerated. Countries didn't get rich from slavery, but certain people did, including African leaders. Britain spent 50% of its wealth making slavery illegal and policing the same.
Money is trying really hard to hide it self but somehow its edges are always visible 😂😂😂
We in the west need to put the seat belts on cos the ride is going to be bumpy 😂😂😂
I wonder what India would be like today if it were not for British rule. I doubt it would be the world power that it is. I was listening to a very good Christian man explaining what is going on in Ukraine. I could hardly believe my ears when he took grievance towards Russia back one thousand years! That is like the Welsh and Cornish of today retaining grievance against all our invaders, the Romans, the Norsemen, the Danes, the Angles, the Saxons. That was linked to oppression under Soviet rule. So ingrained is the logic of excusing discord today by presenting resentment and revenge, totally unChristian precepts, as justifying destruction, and bloodshed that we have reverted to the law of the jungle.
China and India were the two biggest economies in the world before British empire came with their troubles to them. Both are more ancient civilizations as to the British empire. The British empire is massed in human suffering, blood, stealing ect.. Mass murderers
Exactly the same in Africa. Blaming everything on the slave trade centuries ago and colonialism which was more recent but still over 60 years since in many countries. Some are coming right now but a very slow process
Would have been much richer and powerful!!
I'm a secret lemonade drinker, I've been trying to give it up but it's just one of those nights!! ✌
34:10 It's pronounced "Kir-cod-dy"
I wonder, if Americans had been allowed to come here of their own accord, and not because of wars and slavery, the fact that our religious and cultutal selves had to be uprooted, if that isn't the crux of the problem here?
Are we attempting to create culture and religion out of zero tradition, and is that maybe easier to slip into ideology?
West is Best!😁
The West especially Britain, has not got so called rich just from the slave trade, that is simply a small part of the whole picture. Our wealth in Britain began with the Yeoman's. They became the first kind of middle class in this part of the world, so who were the Yeomen, they were sheep farmers and sheep wool traders who made their money from wool then looked into other commodities.
Household weavers processed that wool, then sent it to Belgium to clothe W Europe.
Britain is not rich and hasn't been since 1945. Five years after the war, rationing was still in existence.
Cool
Kris keeps saying 'we', as though he's been part of the West and not a recent arrival.
Anyone who is willing to come here and integrate fully into the British way of life , work, law and order, contribute, etc. should be encouraged so long as their presence is not detrimental to the indigenous population, that is the key that has not been achieved certainly since Blair’s catastrophic policy.
Europeans are the most Inventive, Innovative and Explorative people's thats ever walked this planet.
For the last thousand years. How many Europeans are inventive, creative ect. Regarding stolen ideas that should be properly investigated before your generalized assumptions. Books are been written to even claim mayas ect civilizations . How long ago did the industrial revolution happen, before that. What was.. Realistically, how did the western world become so rich without Slavery, forced occupation ect. More like how did Japan become so rich eg or today China. One group of people that hurt the rest of humanity just to satisfy themselves. Giving falsehood as history and claiming everything. Since issac Newton, what's the percentage of European like him, remembered the genocidial maniacs like hilter that made Einstein eg run, so he is now western. Or atomic bomb a very safe thing. And when Europeans got to places meeting others there, did they get to those places without an adventurous spirit. Development, inventiveness ect, knowledge are immaterial attributes, things. Definitely not a monopoly of any group objectively in the total span of human developments. Arrogance is ignorance.
@@josephodiase174 It's only in the past 3 centuries when Europe dominated the world, the average life expectancy of human being increased from 30 to 70, average per-capita increased from 600 dollars to 16,000 dollars, democracy starts to spread to more than hundred countries. Just look at how the world grew( in terms of science, technology) during the past 300 years and compare it with before European dominance on the world to understand how Europe changed the world.
Indeed
And connected the world through sports
It is revealing of bad faith to want to compare the Virtues of an Individual Society or Time with the Vices of another Individual Society or
We Can't Compare Price with Value