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Britain has its faults, but look at how former British colonies are doing today as compared to former French colonies, and other European countries.
You mean the ones where they essentially wiped out and replaced the locals, like the US, Canada or Australia? Or the ones where the locals are majority, like India, Bangladeh, Pakistan...
Uh... "yes".
I rest my case, your honour!
Not sure that the comparison is all that favorable with France. You check Algeria and Egypt, or Uganda and Niger, and it's not exactly a massive spread. The most positive comparison would be with Italian and Belgian colonialism, which managed to be incompetent and (even by colonial standards) gruesome, respectively.
Man German colonialism failed so hard it doesn't even make the list
Namibia and Tanzania turned out alright. They were something of money sinks, and despite the genocides performed by the Germans, they never really figured out how to turn a profit from their colonies. A bit late to the game, one suspects.
Adding my two cents, major curses to humanity today..
- Britain always followed the divide and rule on it's colonies and it still curses them and beyond.
- Most of the border disputes today can be lead back to british decisions.
There are million more reasons, but it's just not worth arguing with UK now.
I think you should read up on which countries are former British colonies, because there are definitely a lot of them not doing so well either.