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One false statement by a random woman was like a match lighting the powder keg. I kinda always figured the British were less racist than us Americans…
They INVENTED modern imperialism, first trialling it in the "Irish plantations" starting in the 16th century, long before America's colonies. If one could go back in time to stop anything...
All roads lead to Rome.
Before that Greece, before that Persia, before that Assyria, before that Babylonia, before that Egypt, before that Sumeria... Sometime before that Cro Magnon Man. The list gets bigger; The Mongols, Timurids and other turkic groups like the Mughals, the Han...
Even specific to the British Isles (the Angles, Saxons and Jutes; then the Vikings; then the Normans (French descendants of Vikings).
In other words all roads don't lead to Rome, it's just a thing that humans do.
Edit: Clarity, Grammar, More Pedantry
with the difference that the old romans preferred to integrate other tribes into their empire and raise their living standards to pacify them - and not slaughter them.
Modern? As in naval ships as command zones in the Middle East modern? Or subverting latin American democracy modern?
That's postmodern colonization, it's all "ce n'est pas une colonie"
Britain did in fact refuse to help Simon Bolivar set up democracies in Latin America so... Arguably... The answer is just... Yes? It's both? They did both of the things?