The Atrocities of Your National Heritage... This is a Fun Thread! :D

[kinapuffar]

Swedish here, sorry for this:

We kind of went around the known world fucking people's shit up and stealing all of their silver. Not really for any particular reason, just because we could.
In our defence, Christianity was kind of an condescending asshole religion, and you weren't really USING your silver for anything. Also we had nothing better to do during the summers, and we really really wanted your silver. But we totally get that for generations, being the monsters you use to scare your children into submission means we didn't give off a really good impression, even though we weren't really bad people at heart, we just had a different view on life and death that was more "liberal" if you will.
 

Also, we kind of enslaved quite a lot of you, especially the Irish... Our bad...

Did you get that image from the Mount & Blade mod "Brytenwalda"? It was pretty awesome. And if not, where, I'm curious, is it from?

I just found it on google. It was in an article on a site called collider detailing a new History Channel TV series called Vikings, that's hoping to cash in on the success of A Game of Thrones.

 

[smokingplane]

Belgian,

One of our previous kings was kind of a dick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium

While we do not deny he plunderd,raped and mutilated people for fun, in our history classes he is glossed over and the only thing thats said is: He 'developped' the colonies...

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

Ya'll realize that the British/USA weren't the ONLY people do be dicks to naive groups, right?

Oh absolutely, everyone's a ****, we'(we)re just the most successful.

 

[Smokej]

Screw Gorbatschow, Kohl, Bush Sr. and the rest! We had to rely on this man to unify Germany and single-handedly end the whole post-war era...

 

[Machine Man 1992]

I live in a country that had a policy of institutionalized racism based on skin color that lasted for over a century and a half, and subtly continues to this day.

We have a cartoonishly evil intelligence agency that spent more time and money overthrowing the democratically elected leaders of third world nations and installing dictators in their places, than on protecting our nation.

Our election system is so uselessly broken, it put a retarded cowboy who couldn't find his ass with both hands in office.

And out legal drinking age is 21. That's right; adulthood legally begins at 18, meaning you can buy cigarettes, firearms, and pornography, be sent to fight and die in foreign climes, and live on your own, but you can't buy a beer.

 

[StonedNarwhal]

Scottish: Bagpipes. 'Nuff said.
Irish: The whole Catholics & Protestant thing. Also, Jedward.

Spoiler: I am so very sorry

Russian: The whole communism thing didn't really work out too well.
Also, I live in England so the whole Empire thing as well as the other 1000 atrocities committed by us.

 

[Evil Raccoon]

Netherlands: Slave trade, we're sorry for that.
And trying to retake Indonesia after World War II, not our finest moment...

 

[Xenowolf]

I'm German, so my answer should be obvious.

For anyone who still doesn't get it, yes, I am talking about this stuff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut.

Absolutely atrocious. I'll never forgive my ancestors for popularizing this disgusting stuff.

You think that's bad?

Spoiler

I'm surprised we're not on trial for crimes against humanity.

...what is this blasphemy? Death to the heretics! Long live the almighty yeast extract!

 

[Warforger]

From Bulgaria, something about slaughtering Turks and other Muslims but it was of course in retalitation from Turkish slaughtering of Christians. But I guess the Balkans is like that, two sides slaughter each other leaving no one in the right.

For a long time I have always wonder why Native Americans are rarely ever considered when the "sins of our fathers" are discussed in the US. Many people consider slavery to be the worst thing the US has ever participated in. While I agree that it is horrible I find it hard to put it above that of what our forefathers did to the natives of the land we called home. We ripped them off, killed them off and exiled them from their ancestral home... that's pretty damn unethical if you ask me.

And you know what the worst part is? Native Americans (mostly from the Caribbean I think) were enslaved first before Blacks were (which makes more sense) but the working conditions were so horrible that they were all killed off, they couldn't survive the European diseases as well as the overwork and plain ol' brutality from slave owners. The blacks could survive European diseases and they were more resistant to diseases such as Malaria than Native Americans and whites(i.e. endentured servitude) were so they became the slave race.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

We allied with the nazis. It's not the worst thing in the history of the world considering that the alternative was to be invaded by communist russia, a country which despite pointless romantising was still pretty much just as bad as nazi germany, and it was pretty much the only move that didn't get us blown to hell or raped repeatedly in the ass but still. We allied with the nazis.

(I'm talking about Finland here if you were wondering.)

 

[Terratina.]

Three words:

Britain; Middle East; Opium War.

Yeah.

 

[medv4380]

last one known being the neanderthals, and that's technically pre-history, though any number of other unrecorded pre-historic genocides are possible.

Not to burst your fiction bubble, but Neanderthals weren't exterminated. Truthfully they didn't die out ether. A significant portion of Europeans actually have genetic markers showing they are descended from them. Your belief is based on the Out of Africa Hypothesis that was disprove and replaced with Multi-regionalism.

 

[Thaluikhain]

last one known being the neanderthals, and that's technically pre-history, though any number of other unrecorded pre-historic genocides are possible.

Not to burst your fiction bubble, but Neanderthals weren't exterminated. Truthfully they didn't die out ether. A significant portion of Europeans actually have genetic markers showing they are descended from them. Your belief is based on the Out of Africa Hypothesis that was disprove and replaced with Multi-regionalism.

Assuming that to be the case (there is still some debate about that), that is irrelevant.

Neanderthals, as a species, no longer exists, due to human activity. That fits the definition of genocide, even if some descendants of neanderthals survive in another species.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

the invention of slavery in the western world

Naah everyone did slavery. They were just less obvious about it.

 

[Dakkagor]

essentially, what this thread proves is that every global power is about as bad as each other.

America, Japan, UK, Russia, France, Belgium, the Ottomans and Romans before them, the various other powers before them, all the way back to the time when one group of proto humans got a bunch of rocks together, and went up a hill, and beat another group of protohumans to death and stole their women and territory. the hands of our species drip with the blood of countless innocents, slaughtered since time immemorial.

If we ever get out into the galaxy, and find that most of the alien species are less advanced than us, then they are pretty much boned considering our past record. Any more advanced life forms will probably view us with the same disdain as a particularly malignant and lippy virus with pretensions of grandeur.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Also, Jedward.

Spoiler: I am so very sorry

That wasn't our fault, okay? We didn't know until it was too late, we just didn't know!

 

[Ninjamedic]

Also, Jedward.

Spoiler: I am so very sorry

That wasn't our fault, okay? We didn't know until it was too late, we just didn't know!

I always thought they were the perfect ambassadors for Ireland.


"Come to the Emerald Isle! Spend you money here, invest in our industries! Or we'll send more of these bastards over".

 

[Colour Scientist]

I always thought they were the perfect ambassadors for Ireland.


"Come to the Emerald Isle! Spend you money here, invest in our industries! Or we'll send more of these bastards over".

We tried that with Westlife and Boyzone and look where that got us! Maybe it's time for a different approach. We could try our hand at good music, it's been a while.

 

[Ninjamedic]

I always thought they were the perfect ambassadors for Ireland.


"Come to the Emerald Isle! Spend you money here, invest in our industries! Or we'll send more of these bastards over".

We tried that with Westlife and Boyzone and look where that got us! Maybe it's time for a different approach. We could try our hand at good music, it's been a while.

Anyone for trying that whole Irish prog-traditional thing we had going on?

 

[Agent 45]

I apologize on behalf of my ancestors who created the first multiniational company, even though they became stinking rich because of it. See? Despite that they're still sorry, so stop mentioning it!

On top of that, while the whole Indonesia thing was pretty terrible, we at least got Japan the open it's borders during that time, which eventually lead to the spread of manga and anime! So really, something good came out of it, right?