How would you summarize the legacy of the British Empire?

Owning scraps of land around swathes of useless uninhabited land to make your empire look big on a map.

Being better at oppressing than anyone else.
Autism causing it all to fall apart.

That's about it.

>>2953831
If English isn't your first language its what you learn in school

>>2953831
Very shitty senpai

>proliferation of common law
>abolition of slavery
>English as lingua franca
>Industrialization and globalized economics
Mixed opinions desu.
Academic legacy of the British is often looked over/ underappreciated though.
Academically

"Countries I can visit without knowing fucking French or Spanish"

Extreme cruelty, genocide, industrial scale exploitation, tens of millions intentionally starved. Brazen, shameless pillage of entire continents. Gave rise to the racial arrogance which fueled the rise of Hitler

>>2954476
>the british controlled the monsoons in the indian ocean
>bobby peele engineered the potato blight in his secret lair using the alchemist Adam Smith's recipes
get lost mick poo in loo

Pirate island and their spoils.

>>2953831
Destroying slavery throughout the world was pretty cool, and establishing common law and humanistic principles in lands without them was also cool.

Lots of terrible atrocities, but I can't honestly say the world would be better without the British empire.

God bless the queen, and god bless the commonwealth

>>2953831
Stretched out really fast, turned lots of trash lands into straight up gold mines, fell apart because everyone started to catch up industrially and France started waving around a really big stick.

>>2953831
Overall positive with some bumps in the road

>>2953831
>How would you summarize the legacy of the British Empire?
Created Israel. William the Conqueror should've Harried the entire Anglo-Saxon land. Nothing of value would've been lost.

a lot of great accomplishments with equally horrendous atrocities.

overall the britsh empire was an indispensable part of world history.

>>2953831
Edible delicacies from around the world, to replace fermented fish jam and pudding with chips or whatever they make for breakfast.

Serious answer is this
>>2954679

>>2954741
>>>2953831 (OP)
France started waving around a really big stick.

Explain

Despite everything bad that happened, the brits were a big net positive. You don't just convince most of your holdings to join you against local rulers on muskets and a piss-tiny amount of manpower alone.

They gained and held power through some pretty awful means sometimes, but kept it for as long as they did by being better than most alternatives. The improved lot of former British colonies to others or non-colonies is a testament.

[colonizing intensifies]

>>2954375
Thank America for that.

>>2955081
It's worse when they try to use that former rep to strongarm other nations which is funny, especially when it fials

>>2953831
Banker lovers and kaffir lovers whose goal was the destruction of the Boers to line Semitic pockets.

Planting the seeds of america

>>2955070
>You don't just convince most of your holdings to join you against local rulers on muskets and a piss-tiny amount of manpower alone.
This. I think barring Saudi Arabia, the Brit's were the greatest political maneuvering force the world has ever seen.

>>2953831
They uplifted many civilizations out of barbarism and savagery.

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>>2955070
>the brits were a big net positive

Lol

>>2953831
>ETERNAL

BEADY AF

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>>2955372
>we could have had a $6000 gdp per capita in the 19th century

>>2953831
This map has quite a few errors
>Afghanistan was not part of the British empire and was not colonised
>Somalia was not fully controlled save for a brief occupation with the closing of the East Africa theatre
>Eritrea was also only briefly occupied
>Libya was only partly part of the empire and this territory was ceded to Italy
>I'm not entirely sure but I think Florida was colonised by Spain

dragging the world kicking and screaming into modernity

>>2955668
>GDP is literally stagnant for 200 years.
>begins to grow the day the bongs are kicked out.
must be dat postwar boom desu.

>>2955678
Britain didn't do much but Indian GDP per capita growth was relatively dismal until the 90s, you fell for the Gandhi meme.

>>2955678
Most countries look like that plot. Inflation you dumb nigger.

>>2953831
>How would you summarize the legacy of the British Empire?
Handed over the world to the Murricans

>>2955690
>relatively
it was higher than colonial rule with marked increase in living standards and access to education and healthcare.
also
>a socialist semi hermitical state has low growth rate
shocking.
>>2955697
So you are saying most countries had a flat rate of GDP per capita over a hundred years?

>>2953831
>How would you summarize the legacy of the British Empire?

You did it

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>>2955708
>So you are saying most countries had a flat rate of GDP per capita over a hundred years?
This isn't even a point of controversy you absolute brainlet, a countries estimated GDP typically rose in direct proportion to it's population, this is only not a perennial and ubiquitous state of affairs because of innovation.

The recent explosion in GDP per capita is attributed entirely to industrialization - something the world can thank the UK for.
In the last days of the Raj, GDP per capita in India was more than twice that of neighboring China, if that were still true (and there is no reason to assume otherwise had the country been governed by Keynesian Brits rather than sentimental Hindu nationalists) India would have an economy about the size of the EU's.

Independence was the worst set back in India's economic history.

>>2954741
>France
You mean Germany

>>2954354
>uninhabited

literally a quarter of the earth's population

>>2955119
When did that ever happen? Ever since Suez the Brits have been pretty content with being America's bitch boy.

>>2954476
>t. Rajneesh O'Malley M'Butu

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>>2953831
Ended after winnig two wars.

>>2953831
Criquet+rugby

>>2954447
>English as lingua franca
America
>Industrialization and globalized economics
This was going on since 1492.

>>2954701
>commonwealth
What is the point of this meme currently

>>2955372
Why doesn't it go to before British rule?

>>2955110
listen here nigger, look at the red on that map. The only way those people had any social mobility would've been to learn English. only nations like japan and korea were that heavily influenced by america

>>2953831
A lot of coins from around the world with English royalty on it

>>2953831
Gay nigger muslim trannies owned by jews

>>2956844
>India & Co.

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>>2954354
>Better at oppressing than anyone else.

They really need to get post ID's on /his/

>>2954354
forgetting the informal empire mate, those scraps of land were actually hugely influential over the geopolitics of the area - 25% is what britain owned de jure, though it could be much, much larger

>>2954476
t. Francois Bonerporte

>>2955043
>implying fish and chips isn't a delicacy
>implying we didn't create the empire because we wanted more shit to put on our chips

>>2956890
so amerifags believe they destroyed the empire
the eternal anglo is eternal

was this actually an empire? it never amounted to anything on the global scale, i mean britain, could never project its power unto the world, all it could do is maintain status quo (till germany was born) through alliances, not even themselfs

>never take back french land
>lose to a milita consisting of hillbillies
>never get revenge on dutchies or take their colonies
>never take scandinavia
>never take spain
>never take alaska

all these enemies are allowed to exist, plot and try to wage war on them, what kinda empire was this, im thinking more like a big ass trading company with thugs in red coats

>>2959089
>spend time, manpower and money taking european land that is brutally nationalistic and more than willing to eat shit just to give you a bigger plate full of it
>especially when there's rich and technologically disadvantaged places the world over

nah
also
>what is south africa
>destroying nations on the continent so other continental powers could get nice and strong and invade britain