*gasp* I had TOTALLY forgotten that Ioan was in Titanic! *fangirl squee* :DDD He was SO hawt in it.
The idea that these hot young politicians had fangirls makes me happy Yes! Yes so much. I loved the thought too.
The thing I hate most about being British (by nationality, if not wholly by birth) is all the colonial guilt I however, have a different point of view on the subject. Being from Argentina -an ex-Spanish colony- and a history lover, I usually think of what would be of us if colonization wouldn't have happened. (Personally, I would be in Europe now, since all my background is European, but that's another story).
I think that most of the colonies that were under the British Empire ended profiting from the whole business, even if it might have been bad at some point or another. The British Empire and then the Commonwealth gave many nations (or nations to be, at that time) the chance to grow, to be backed by an amazingly powerful country.
On the other hand, Spanish colonies ended up screeeeewd. Yeah. Both colonizations did some things bad, like completely forcing native populations, exploiting them and their land, etc, but standing now in the future I believe that the British colonization was much more profiting than the Spanish one...so you don't have to feel that guilty xD
I might be entirely wrong though. This subject need a lot of studying and I'm just basing myself on the knowledge I have ^^
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The idea that these hot young politicians had fangirls makes me happy
Yes! Yes so much. I loved the thought too.
The thing I hate most about being British (by nationality, if not wholly by birth) is all the colonial guilt
I however, have a different point of view on the subject. Being from Argentina -an ex-Spanish colony- and a history lover, I usually think of what would be of us if colonization wouldn't have happened. (Personally, I would be in Europe now, since all my background is European, but that's another story).
I think that most of the colonies that were under the British Empire ended profiting from the whole business, even if it might have been bad at some point or another. The British Empire and then the Commonwealth gave many nations (or nations to be, at that time) the chance to grow, to be backed by an amazingly powerful country.
On the other hand, Spanish colonies ended up screeeeewd. Yeah. Both colonizations did some things bad, like completely forcing native populations, exploiting them and their land, etc, but standing now in the future I believe that the British colonization was much more profiting than the Spanish one...so you don't have to feel that guilty xD
I might be entirely wrong though. This subject need a lot of studying and I'm just basing myself on the knowledge I have ^^