[muawiyah]

The Brits as a people, not the Raj ~ there’s a difference.

[Cronos]

The Brits as a people. hmm.... well, this has only been since the Methodists in the early 1800s and that too, not in large numbers initially.

But in the Victorian age they saw themselves as bringing civilisation, at the same time trampling on peoples in the North of England and in Ireland and India (think the famines).

As I said -- they come on the positive on the whole, but just about.

They were not the grand bringers of charity etc. but bringers of charity -- a leser magnitude, but still good.