Why aren't the Indians more grateful?

[Mr Greene]

There's a difference between what you call white guilt and accepting that our history wasn't all good and working on not repeating it. White guilt is a fringe phenomenon, which may be shared by a few activists. Working on making things better in the future and accepting our own wrongdoings is somethíng everyone should do, since it's aimed at creating a better environment for everyone.

Agreed. Pauplpablo says:

The same way all the civilizations who invaded Britain didn't do it to give the people baths, aquaducts and straight roads.

... but what he is ignoring is the fact that come the industrial revolution, Britain became an empire by conquering 23% of the world's population and at its height was the largest empire in history.

I don't feel guilt for that because I wasn't alive at the time. But inversely, some people still feel pride in the British empire. The empire mentality still blights Britain even though we are no longer an empire. I can fight against this. I can also recognise that I am indirectly benefiting from Britain having an empire in the past. It won't stop me continuing to benefit from it, but I can at least appreciate why.

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Yes we sometimes say that, on the rare occasions when we're not busy verwurstenschlagen our kobenhogenstrudel.

I've just broken google translate.

Personally I find that anyone who attempts to describe European colonialism as either good or bad invariably knows **** all about it.