[Caipirabob]

One of the most striking incidents I experienced in my time in India took place on a museum tour. The discussion turned to the British occupation. My host discussed the exhibits and his brown face turned red as his voice grew louder and louder. It attraction a small crowd who gather around to listen to the history he related. His open vitriol to the British may have been taken as anger towards me, and I felt the eyes in the room heavy on my back.

When he paused to take a breath, I jumped in and said; "Oh yes, as an American who's family has been there since before the Revolution, we know exactly how you feel about the British!"

There was a momentary pause, and then people started laughing. My host made a big smile and laughed loudly and patted my shoulder. Situation defused...

And the interesting thing about our revolution was that the Founding Fathers and our other leaders placed an emphasis on the fact that we have so much in common with the British, and they hoped that we could eventually work together again. Most of us grew up loving various aspects of British culture and history, even given our American heritage.

Yeah, not gonna happen over there for some time...

[bert]

Meantime, even with the Brits long gone, grass shacks are the construction materials for many, many Indian families.

Were it not for the Brits, India would be totally backward like Africa

[Cronos]

In truth the American revolution was the English civil war part 2. The Colonials felt that they answered to the king not parliament. So how could parliament raise taxes?