Posted on 07/24/2015 12:07:39 AM PDT by Cronos
Brown Rice?
If you dont like being colonized, throw off the invaders. Otherwise, STFU and assimilate.
The Hispanics I know are legal immigrants and are happy to assimilate.
You're also overlooking the fact thanks to Gandhi's and Nehru's policy of economic socialism which impoverished the nation worse than before, India was left a destitute third world country.
Only because of that western invention, capitalism, have many millions of Indians finally escaped the terrible poverty of millenia. Many millions are still mired in that kind of poverty and ignorance. But at least now India is making her way and creating wealth.
It was only until about twenty years ago that India redirected its economic fortunes. It now has a burgeoning middle class...something unthinkable one hundred or even fifty years ago. Thanks in no small part to the capitalist policies many which were created in that awful country of Britain.
The biggest tragedy is India has many millions of very intelligent people, who like the people of China, were put in an economic straightjacket by its own rulers.
Not everything Britain did in India was good. Probably many of the English who served in the colonial posts cared little about the welfare of India. But the good it introduced far outweighed the bad.
The British had been colonial masters for about 200 years when the Great Bengal Famine happened. To suggest that they are blameless in that tragedy is pushing the envelope a bit too far. The economic policies followed by Nehru might not have been the best for India but they certainly didn't cause famine. As for the good of colonialism outweighing the bad, I'm not going to join issue with you about it because different perspectives on different matters can exist. This was just about the British handling of a famine at the fag end of their colonial period.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/norman-borlaug-wheat-breeder-who-av-2009-09-14/
Back before PC, there was this classic exchange in Fawlty Towers, which they have taken out when they show it nowadays:
The Major: Strange creatures, women. I knew one once... striking-looking girl... tall, you know... father was a banker.
Basil: Really?
The Major: Don’t remember the name of the bank.
Basil: Nevermind.
The Major: I must have been rather keen on her because I took her to see... India!
Basil: India?
The Major: At the Oval... fine match, marvellous finish... now, Surrey had to get thirty-three in about half an hour... she went off to powder her... powder her hands or something... women... er... never came back.
Basil: What a shame.
The Major: And the strange thing was... throughout the morning she kept referring to the Indians as ‘niggers’.
“No no no,” I said, “the niggers are the West Indians............These people are wogs.”
“No, no,” she said. “All cricketers are niggers.”
Basil: They do get awfully confused, don’t they? They’re not thinkers. I see it with Sybil everyday.
The Major: I do wish I could remember her name. She’s still got my wallet.
Basil: As I was saying, no capacity for logical thought.
The Major: Who?
Basil: Women.
The Major: Oh yes, yes... I thought you meant Indians.
Most in the U.S. have no idea what a Muslim invasion, active or passive, implies. They will soon enough though. India prior to the Muslim invasions was the center of wealth and commerce. Largest liberaries and centers of learning. It all was burnt to the ground.
Since recorded history, India had more than 25% of all GDP. It all started to change after the British Invasion...it’s just a fact. UK built their empire using India as raw material. But, the Indian’s will have the last laugh.
Both India and China were invaded by Mongolic peoples in the 1500s-1600s (India by the Moghuls and China by the Jurchen/Manchu), so they were already subjugated by foreigners before the Europeans came (for a person from Maharashtra or Tamil Nadu or Szhenzhen or Guangdong, the Mughals or Manchu were as alien as the English)
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