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As a Canadian, I don't really count the small pox blanket thing. It was deplorable, but this was more the action of a select few than the will of the country/colony. I'm sure many people at the time would be just as appalled as we are today.
So I'd say our worst thing was the residential schools. Not sure specifically what year they started but it was around 100 years ago, and I believe it was more through ignorance than malice, but the damage was immense. Basically our government decided that the native communities weren't integrating well into Canadian society, so their solution was to take the children off the reserves and send them to live at boarding schools (Catholic run I think?) where they could be indoctrinated into Western culture. These were the olden days so even if not intentionally abusive (which some were) you had things like the strap. After graduation high school they would be sent back to their reserves, stripped of their culture, distanced from their parents thereby having no parenting skills of their own, with a suspicious and negative attitude towards authority and education.
This went on for a good 3 or so generations, the government of today recognizes the mistake and are doing their best to fix it, the damage is slowly healing, but it's no wonder the reserves up here can be such a mess.
So I'd say our worst thing was the residential schools. Not sure specifically what year they started but it was around 100 years ago, and I believe it was more through ignorance than malice, but the damage was immense. Basically our government decided that the native communities weren't integrating well into Canadian society, so their solution was to take the children off the reserves and send them to live at boarding schools (Catholic run I think?) where they could be indoctrinated into Western culture. These were the olden days so even if not intentionally abusive (which some were) you had things like the strap. After graduation high school they would be sent back to their reserves, stripped of their culture, distanced from their parents thereby having no parenting skills of their own, with a suspicious and negative attitude towards authority and education.
This went on for a good 3 or so generations, the government of today recognizes the mistake and are doing their best to fix it, the damage is slowly healing, but it's no wonder the reserves up here can be such a mess.
We raped and pillaged everyone reachable via land or longboats, or any combination of the two (twas all in good fun)
Oh, and we knew that random water in unknown lands was unsafe to drink, so we just drank beer instead.
I cant think of anything else that may have been bad, but all the bad stuff we DID do was nothing personal. We just liked money and women and GLORY
Oh, and we knew that random water in unknown lands was unsafe to drink, so we just drank beer instead.
I cant think of anything else that may have been bad, but all the bad stuff we DID do was nothing personal. We just liked money and women and GLORY
We also brought the world this:Bestival said:
Also Wilders, but that doesn't really compare to the whole Indonesia thing.
So can you justify these? :Helmholtz Watson said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsmill_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Aldershot_Bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Friday_%281972%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_pub_bombings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcombe_Street_Siege
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mon_restaurant_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droppin_Well_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrods_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teebane_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bishopsgate_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill_Road_bombing
and all the other sectarian violence over the years resulting in 800 civilian deaths at the hands of republican paramilitaries?
I suppose if that lot was justifiable then so was this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_bombings
and the 1000 other civilian deaths at the hands of loyalist paramilitaries and British security forces.
Well, for the Netherlands:
- Slavery by the Dutch EIC and WIC in the 17th and 18th century.
- Politionele acties (read: massacres) in Indonesia in the last 1940's.
That's the worst I can think of right now. Indonesia was mostly the victim of the Dutch being assholes (understatement of the year).
- Slavery by the Dutch EIC and WIC in the 17th and 18th century.
- Politionele acties (read: massacres) in Indonesia in the last 1940's.
That's the worst I can think of right now. Indonesia was mostly the victim of the Dutch being assholes (understatement of the year).
The article seems to have IRA members says that they didn't do it, and a single member saying they did.Matthew94 said:
I never said that they were perfect or without error, just that I support the idea for a united Ireland.DirtyJunkieScum said:
As an American, I admit we have done several disgusting things in our lives. We wiped out most of the natives, we drove out the Mexicans and took about half their country, we had internment camps for the Japanese during WWII, we allowed segregation to exist for such a long time after slavery was abolished, we had a batshit shameful senator lead a Red Scare which some people still haven't gotten over, and we poorly conducted a theater of war against the Middle East after 9/11 and we're still paying for it.
We also gave the world shitty cartoons in the 80's. Shitty, merhcandise-driven, pun-laden, poorly animated, stupidly characterized cartoons. We also apologize for all the unfortunate people who grew up watching these cartoons, thinking that they were good shows and making them popular, which lead to all the lame reboots and live film adaptations.(they didn't know better) So, as an American, I sincerely apologize for those awfully made Transformers and TMNT cartoons, because without them, we would not have Michael Bay's underwhelming adaptations, and we wouldn't have the children of the 80's never shutting the f*** up about them, and never moving on with their lives. I am deeply sorry.
On the plus side, we did give the world Batman. That makes everything okay, right?
We also gave the world shitty cartoons in the 80's. Shitty, merhcandise-driven, pun-laden, poorly animated, stupidly characterized cartoons. We also apologize for all the unfortunate people who grew up watching these cartoons, thinking that they were good shows and making them popular, which lead to all the lame reboots and live film adaptations.(they didn't know better) So, as an American, I sincerely apologize for those awfully made Transformers and TMNT cartoons, because without them, we would not have Michael Bay's underwhelming adaptations, and we wouldn't have the children of the 80's never shutting the f*** up about them, and never moving on with their lives. I am deeply sorry.
On the plus side, we did give the world Batman. That makes everything okay, right?
I almost pissed myself from this comment.Matthew94 said:
I was just waiting for this comment. Thank you.Brandon Logan said:
Well, I'm from Sweden, so... well, I think we had some vikings that killed, looted and raped their way around Europe. That was kinda dickish.
Um, we more or less invented reality TV with Expedition Robinson, later known in the US (and probably rest of the world) as Survivor. We're not too proud of that one.
I could piggyback off the "Empire" bandwagon, or I could apologise humorously for my nations amazing abilities at Rugby, but I think I'll just settle for not having something feel bad about. We've not really done anything atrocious as an independent country. All of our international crimes are blended as Britain.
It's all your fault, England. Why'd you have to go and annex us and not Scotland?
Besides, we make these:
Do we really seem like the kind of people to cause inhumane distress?
It's all your fault, England. Why'd you have to go and annex us and not Scotland?
Besides, we make these:
Do we really seem like the kind of people to cause inhumane distress?
Okay, first, tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable.
Second, the American indians are indirectly responsible for one of the greatest plagues to ever hit the planet. Mormons. Ironically, Mormons too were exiled from pretty much every state they tried to stay in and forced to march to the most desolate and remote location in America: Utah.
As far as smallpox goes, it has hit pretty much every population of the world with great regularity in history.
But I AM going to hold EVERY country that still has a royal family accountable for that crime. Seriously guys, most countries have eliminated these parasites from the earth, what's keeping you from entering the age of reason?
Second, the American indians are indirectly responsible for one of the greatest plagues to ever hit the planet. Mormons. Ironically, Mormons too were exiled from pretty much every state they tried to stay in and forced to march to the most desolate and remote location in America: Utah.
As far as smallpox goes, it has hit pretty much every population of the world with great regularity in history.
But I AM going to hold EVERY country that still has a royal family accountable for that crime. Seriously guys, most countries have eliminated these parasites from the earth, what's keeping you from entering the age of reason?
We're born from the biggest cunts in the world, became one of the biggest cunts in the world and then gave birth to another **** that would make up half of the conflict that would bathe us in nuclear hell fire, backed by us. I think there are few things we've done right outside of our own country but we've been magical within the coast. We've had our ups and downs but we've made it through being one of the best.Matt King said: