“Unveiling the Forgotten Lessons: How British Schools Shape the Narrative of Empire”

"Unveiling the Forgotten Lessons: How British Schools Shape the Narrative of Empire"

On the former, British civil servants and private enterprises developed modern infrastructure in the colonised areas. They created a global trade network, allowing colonies, dominions and protectorates to access lucrative markets on the other side of the world. Colonial administration standardised education across the Globe, created job opportunities in the civil service and the military, and introduced modern legislature and administration practices.

The process of building the Empire is a remarkable achievement in itself, a testament to the skill, competence, courage and leadership of the British military, merchant sailors and explorers.

OF COURSE, in all this the British Empire was also responsible for some of the worst atrocities and violation of human rights in relatively modern history… Even if glossed over in their own history books, as we are going to get into shortly.

Which, to be fair, as we outlined in our unfortunately age restricted 2 hour long documentary: Swept Under the Rug: The Truth About the Japanese Holocaust, which is the best video we have ever produced, not just the Japanese, but the United States too committed mind boggling amounts of crimes against humanity during the Pacific Theater as something of a matter of course, yet virtually none of this is ever mentioned in either country’s academic history books, generally left to university lecturers and the likes of us to dig into. This is a theme with basically every single nation in history with how they cover their own history in schools, with the stark exception being Germany. Who some, perhaps rightly, have argued go too far the other way. Hammering their own atrocities home so much that the youth of today not only have learned the lessons from them as is very good, but also have unfortunately developed a bit of a collective major guilt complex about it even though neither they, nor their parents, nor even in many cases their grandparents, had anything to do with any of it.

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