The Atrocities of Your National Heritage... This is a Fun Thread! :D
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Well the first the comes to mind, and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned already because I'm not going through 15 pages to find out, but the first to come to mind is the internment of the Japanese during World War II. It took the Government 60 years to formally apologize for that, never mind making reparations.
Well, in Canada we put most of the aboriginal population in residential schools. That created a lot of problems within that community. Apart from that, we're far too mild to commit any major atrocity, really we don't do too much that's extreme.
EDIT: WAIT! Japanese internment! Forgot about that one. Fairly major atrocity, doesn't get much focus these days though. I suppose we also do have the most obnoxious group of the French in the world (no really, the Quebec election is grabbing national headlines because just about everyone involved is completely obnoxious).
EDIT: WAIT! Japanese internment! Forgot about that one. Fairly major atrocity, doesn't get much focus these days though. I suppose we also do have the most obnoxious group of the French in the world (no really, the Quebec election is grabbing national headlines because just about everyone involved is completely obnoxious).
I am American but my blood is predominantly Scotch, Irish, and English, so 2/3 of my genes harbor great resentment toward about the other 33% of them. As for what America has done? I would argue for the near genocide of the native populace.
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Oh wait, that's too easy.
Well, there is always England, we were an empire and India and yeaaah. Lets not talk about that.
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Oh wait, that's too easy.
Well, there is always England, we were an empire and India and yeaaah. Lets not talk about that.
alligabbi said:
Yes, but we also did some enviromental good with that volcano blowing up.
Since it released less emission having a giant volcano blow up, then all the air traffic, so hah! We do good through our evils.
Whilst I don't really agree with judging those who lived in the past with the ethics of the modern world, this looks like a fun thread, so I'll ignore my usual perspective...but just for this once.
Some of the things the British did during the Victorian era was just so unjustifiable (even, occasionally, by the standards of the time) that one can only admire the sheer balls to the wall audacity of their actions. The Opium Wars is perhaps my favourite; the general gist of the war I shall describe in the manner of a standard domestic scene.
Imagine Britain is holidaying in it's second home, "India", and realises it is out of tea. So it pops over to the Cornershop, run by China.
Britain: "Hello, I would like some tea?"
China: "Certainly, how much would you like"
Britain: "Well, how much have you got"
China counts all the tea he has in stock, and tells Britain the price
Britain: "How much?! I can't afford that"
Britain, of course, has an awful lot of money, but wants to keep it for buying more holiday cottages.
China: "Well, if you can't afford it..."
Britain: "Dammit, I need tea!"
China: "You want tea, you're going to have to pay"
Britain: "Wait, I have a solution. I have a shit ton of class A narcotics...we'll trade"
China: "I want money, not opium!"
Britain begins to get threatening
Britain: "You will take the opium, in exchange for tea...you got that!"
China: "What, are you threatening me?"
Britain: "Yes"
Britain proceeds to bash the living shit out of China with a two by four
China: "Ah, okay, okay...I'll take your Opium. Look, I'm smoking it now! Just leave me alone. And take the tea!"
A few weeks later, Britain pops back to the shop. China is looking gaunt, and distracted
Britain: "More tea please China. I have opium"
China: "No way man, I'm going clean. This stuff is killing me, and ruining my business"
Britain: "What?!"
Britain get's a hammer, and beats up China again
China: "Oh, no, man! Stop it! Stop!"
Britain: "Smoke it, *****"
China begins to cry with pain
China: Okay man, whatever you say...
China smokes the opium, and begins to die inside...
Some of the things the British did during the Victorian era was just so unjustifiable (even, occasionally, by the standards of the time) that one can only admire the sheer balls to the wall audacity of their actions. The Opium Wars is perhaps my favourite; the general gist of the war I shall describe in the manner of a standard domestic scene.
Imagine Britain is holidaying in it's second home, "India", and realises it is out of tea. So it pops over to the Cornershop, run by China.
Britain: "Hello, I would like some tea?"
China: "Certainly, how much would you like"
Britain: "Well, how much have you got"
China counts all the tea he has in stock, and tells Britain the price
Britain: "How much?! I can't afford that"
Britain, of course, has an awful lot of money, but wants to keep it for buying more holiday cottages.
China: "Well, if you can't afford it..."
Britain: "Dammit, I need tea!"
China: "You want tea, you're going to have to pay"
Britain: "Wait, I have a solution. I have a shit ton of class A narcotics...we'll trade"
China: "I want money, not opium!"
Britain begins to get threatening
Britain: "You will take the opium, in exchange for tea...you got that!"
China: "What, are you threatening me?"
Britain: "Yes"
Britain proceeds to bash the living shit out of China with a two by four
China: "Ah, okay, okay...I'll take your Opium. Look, I'm smoking it now! Just leave me alone. And take the tea!"
A few weeks later, Britain pops back to the shop. China is looking gaunt, and distracted
Britain: "More tea please China. I have opium"
China: "No way man, I'm going clean. This stuff is killing me, and ruining my business"
Britain: "What?!"
Britain get's a hammer, and beats up China again
China: "Oh, no, man! Stop it! Stop!"
Britain: "Smoke it, *****"
China begins to cry with pain
China: Okay man, whatever you say...
China smokes the opium, and begins to die inside...
being a 'merican we got slavery, the indians, jim crow, atomic bomb, japanese internment, and uhhhhh ................................... Jack in the Box
Oh god.... all the things the British Empire did wrong?
I dunno where to even start. We enslaved, 'colonized', went on religious crusades and.... you know what I think I don't want to go on.
I dunno where to even start. We enslaved, 'colonized', went on religious crusades and.... you know what I think I don't want to go on.
Hey...
I'm German and of course you think "Oh, another WW2 posting" but no... Actually, Germany committed not one but TWO acts of genocide in the 20th century.
Meet the story of the Herero, an African tribe who was unfortunate enough to live there where Germany wanted its "place at the sun" in the imperialistic race for colonies at the change from the 18th to the 19th century.
After being exploited by their new overlords for a few years the Herero and other tribes rose up... And were crushingly defeated by an expedition corps under the command of Lothar von Trotha. After their defeat the Herero (the whole tribe, men, women, children) fled into the Omaheke desert and Lothar von Trotha just blocked every access point to the desert and let his troops chase the people away from every source of water they found. Locked into a desert and cut off from water the Herero in the desert died one by one... Nearly 85% of the whole Herero population died making this genocide relatively speaking even more successful than the Hholocaust.
And the funniest part: It's been more than 100 years and Germany hasn't even officially apologized yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_Genocide
I'm German and of course you think "Oh, another WW2 posting" but no... Actually, Germany committed not one but TWO acts of genocide in the 20th century.
Meet the story of the Herero, an African tribe who was unfortunate enough to live there where Germany wanted its "place at the sun" in the imperialistic race for colonies at the change from the 18th to the 19th century.
After being exploited by their new overlords for a few years the Herero and other tribes rose up... And were crushingly defeated by an expedition corps under the command of Lothar von Trotha. After their defeat the Herero (the whole tribe, men, women, children) fled into the Omaheke desert and Lothar von Trotha just blocked every access point to the desert and let his troops chase the people away from every source of water they found. Locked into a desert and cut off from water the Herero in the desert died one by one... Nearly 85% of the whole Herero population died making this genocide relatively speaking even more successful than the Hholocaust.
And the funniest part: It's been more than 100 years and Germany hasn't even officially apologized yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_Genocide
Denmark
Crusades along the baltic sea, Estonia and Latvia if memory serves me correct
Vikings, invading and occupying Britain, and of course raiding all over the coastlines of Europe.
So we haven't really done much in our past.
But, in the recent years we got quite a lot of bull for the mohammed drawings, I wouldn't personally take this one as an atrocity though, but I guess some would
And we participated in the Iraq, Afghanistan and Libyan wars.
EDIT: I forgot! we also gave this feeling to the world;
We invented LEGO =)
Crusades along the baltic sea, Estonia and Latvia if memory serves me correct
Vikings, invading and occupying Britain, and of course raiding all over the coastlines of Europe.
So we haven't really done much in our past.
But, in the recent years we got quite a lot of bull for the mohammed drawings, I wouldn't personally take this one as an atrocity though, but I guess some would
And we participated in the Iraq, Afghanistan and Libyan wars.
EDIT: I forgot! we also gave this feeling to the world;
We invented LEGO =)
did you read that? The germans apologized in 2004, they just won't pay reparationsRoonMian said:
Well.... I'm Welsh and we don't really have any, we've been to busy being screwed over for about a thousand years. Seriously, the British Empire should be called the English Empire considering that Wales and Scotland had very little, and still have very little say in national matters.
Just a quick point, we owned most of Scotland and quite a bit of Wales at one point, and before that we were Europe's main source off high quality copper for weaponry etc...Matthew94 said:
OT: Extensive bombing campaigns by the IRA, though not government sanctioned so I don't know if that counts... A large group of us went off to fight for Franco in the Spanish Civil war at one point, led by a prominent politician. We were dishonourably discharged cos we were shit and drunk all the time.
I can't say any of our governments can really lay claim to any significant atrocities. When atrocities in warfare were the norm, we had a High King, and he can't really have been held responsible for every single chieftain. Then the British were in charge. Then we refused to do anything interesting ever again except a series of minor and ineffective uprisings before the Brits got bored of us complaining, realised there's nothing here but rain and farmers, and decided to let us have our independence. I guess the government being implicated in covering up child sexual abuse by the clergy might count, but it's not an atrocity.
Wait, I've thought of a few. U2, Westlife, Boyzone, and, last but not least, JEDWARD. And Louis Walsh for good measure, the smug, overbearing git...