What happens when the British don't put historical treasures in a museum...
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One of the good points about the British, if your historical and cultural artefacts are in their possession, they're 98% safe. Just look at the British Library as a good example, they have books dating back to the 12th century still preserved down there.
And there's still enough sentiment towards preservation that the backlash going against it can kill any movement. Look how fast BLM died in the UK after they wreaked one statue compared to the unfettered destruction in the US and Canada.
Statue monuments have never really been an American thing. Sure, we have them, but they're not prominent, not like Nelson's Column or the Victoria Memorial.
The prominent monuments in the US are all too fucking big to be harmed by mere vandalism. People can hate the arch all they want but the arch doesn't fucking care, it's 600' tall and made of steel.
We also have a significant amount of maintained and/or restored equipment, since that was always an American thing. We have far more museum ships than anyone else in the world, there are many railroads that maintain old steam engines that still make runs (even if it is a special excursions instead of dedicated revenue service), restored cars are practically boring for how common they are, etc.
Sure, people got angry over destroyed statues. But if anyone ever tried to damage something like USS Missouri, it would have ended far worse for them.
Would it? Maybe it just hasn't occurred to them to try it yet.
Damn shame the british are about to be overrun with history-hating, culture-destroying locusts wearing human shapes.
About to be? India and Pakistan are about to have their revenge for the 1947 Partition of India when Sunak and Yusaf get Scotland independence.
I believe something similar happened during the Boxer rebellion. The Qing dynasty didn't give a shit about cultural artifacts and were seen tossing priceless vases out the windows and burning other relics. The Western soldiers wrote home about it in disbelief.
Hell during the 2nd Opium War when the allied forces (mostly British and French) sacked Beijing at least looted as much as possible before they started burning shit for torturing their diplomats.
I still find the reason why the British have so much Greek artifacts funny as it was because they asked the ottomans permission to make casts of vases and works so they wouldn't be lost if a disaster happened, the ottoman ruler agreed and sent an edict saying not to bother the British if you see them with Greek vases and artifacts to which the British went 'wait you're not going to stop, ask or get in our way if we take these artifacts, fuck casts grab the originals!'
Because the ruling machu court didn't consider themselves Chinese but a foreign conqueror, they didn't give a shit about han Chinese cultural artifacts, they'd rather let them burn than hand it over to the new invading foreigners or preserve it for the han Chinese
Respect for historical treasures is hardly universal. In many places and at many times, it was non-existent.
I'm not familiar with this picture. Can someone tell me what's happening here? Going off the costumesn photo quality, and context, I'd guess some Communist Chinese destroying something ancient and irreplaceable? What, exactly?
The Chinese Cultural Revolution.
case & point