<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It's a pity that Pat Robertson never studied European history, or the history of his own ancestors who all came running to the New World ( America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa, etc) from the christianized Old World (Europe), to escape the gruelling poverty of the Old World. Anyone who has read European history, or studied historical demography of Europe, or even the classic literature from 18th-19th century Europe, will understand the extent to which European society was plagued by extreme rampant poverty, terrible living conditions, and social divisions, which prompted the migration of millions of Europeans to the New Worlds in serch of better life. Yet, Europe was very much christian when poverty of an excruciating nature prevailed in Europe.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Very true. One can even get a glimpse of the grinding poverty from Charles Dickens' writings, or see it in the dramatised versions made by English channels: David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby. Also such programmes as the more recent North and South - which is significantly about the cotton industry in Manchester (their cotton industry could only survive because Britain systematically destroyed India's). In this last film, there's even a scene set at a London exhibition displaying items from 'all over the British Empire'. In one part of this scene you can see the characters standing in front of a Hindu statue.
The making-of of 'Our Mutual Friend' also has one of the actors saying something quite insightful: how the drama's setting of the Britain of that time was depicted rather accurately, and how the lower classes (who made up the poor) lived like they were in the slums of today's "Karachi" (actor's words). They literally lived in grime and dirt and had to scrape their living out of the roadside. By accident, the actor interviewed made some very good choice of words, even if Karachi does not come out favourably because of the comparison.
They play this stuff on TV here, and if they do so where you all are living, watch it. These are good to get some view of their history, as well as to see the sympathetic characters created by Dickens and the other English authors. (The regular people who stayed put in Britain appear to have been far better people than the christoterrorist colonials who terrorised India; at least when going by these dramas).
Britain's increase in wealth is directly proportional to India's increase in poverty.
Same correlation applies to all of colonial west and formerly-colonised countries.
The west really has to learn this which is the only thing that will teach it to stop slighting its former victims by its ignorance, an ignorance that still continues the colonial attitude of how 'they don't care'. The formerly-colonised countries also need to learn and remember this so that they know their poverty has nothing to do with their Old religions.
The making-of of 'Our Mutual Friend' also has one of the actors saying something quite insightful: how the drama's setting of the Britain of that time was depicted rather accurately, and how the lower classes (who made up the poor) lived like they were in the slums of today's "Karachi" (actor's words). They literally lived in grime and dirt and had to scrape their living out of the roadside. By accident, the actor interviewed made some very good choice of words, even if Karachi does not come out favourably because of the comparison.
They play this stuff on TV here, and if they do so where you all are living, watch it. These are good to get some view of their history, as well as to see the sympathetic characters created by Dickens and the other English authors. (The regular people who stayed put in Britain appear to have been far better people than the christoterrorist colonials who terrorised India; at least when going by these dramas).
Britain's increase in wealth is directly proportional to India's increase in poverty.
Same correlation applies to all of colonial west and formerly-colonised countries.
The west really has to learn this which is the only thing that will teach it to stop slighting its former victims by its ignorance, an ignorance that still continues the colonial attitude of how 'they don't care'. The formerly-colonised countries also need to learn and remember this so that they know their poverty has nothing to do with their Old religions.