Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Yeah, because HongKong is the only example of a British colony while Africa and the Middle East do not really exist. Did the people of HongKong also greet the British when the British first arrived and did they offer them to govern the city? To pretend colonialism was all honey and milk and daffodils is still weird. Maybe some good came out of it once all the dissenters were killed in bloody military campaigns or left to China but I doubt that it was all roses and orchidees when you tried to subjugate China with opium.
It was the stick Sarmatian used to batter Britain with, as an example of how Britain abused its powerful status to grab something that she had no right to. Which amused me with its irony, given I was there not that long ago and many people there were longing for the old days of British rule, and the rightful Chinese rulers and the poor Hong Kongers who'd been so oppressed by the colonialist British absolutely hated each other.