Why is India like that
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TLDW even though 4 minute video: India is the way it is currently as it only works culturally when colonised by a greater power.
I'd say that is true for a lot of the world, the biggest mistake of colonisation was not continuing competent European oversight. Under the Europeans they got improved logistics with roads, trains and better ports, a lot of that still runs UNIMPROVED despite being more than half a century old.
I remember watching a YouTube video, was talking about a plan purposed in 19th century Britain to turn the Empire into a federation, so each colony under it would have more cultural autonomy but remain under the control of Britain with Ireland being one of the first selected to do this in. It probably would've avoided the issue now after decolonisation and the flip side of full repression as that's how Vietnam became such an issue.
Uplifting never, ever works.
singers, hong kong.
I have similar thoughts about the Civil War. Chattel slavery was well on its way out and likely would have resolved itself in a decade or two anyways, and without all the devastating consequences of a Union victory. The "ackshully 50% of whites owned slaves" revisionism was individual professional households hosting them to learn skills like a naturally reoccurring medieval master-apprentice system, as it was quickly becoming impractical to have so many slaves working the fields. The households had significantly fewer rights over the slaves, and sometimes didn't even have the ability to refuse taking them in. The slaves were either owned by the landlords or the banks (shocker), who were in their own internal crisis over the fading relevancy of slavery. This is the history they were teaching in Florida that libs were having meltdowns over a few years ago.
That list leaves out the "stable currency" eh?