Au contrair - I've long mused about Mahatma Gandhi's life-expectancy if he had not been born in British, but say, French colony. The odds are we've never heard of the man and his goat - he would just disappear just as hundreds of Indochinese and Algerian and and... nationalists did. The Brits have a (perverted?) sense of, if not fair-play, then at least sort of admiration for the underdog... As for the empire - They've already won - the world speaks (you certainly write) english! The empire is in the mind of the planet's population...
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Au contrair - I've long mused about Mahatma Gandhi's life-expectancy if he had not been born in British, but say, French colony. The odds are we've never heard of the man and his goat - he would just disappear just as hundreds of Indochinese and Algerian and and... nationalists did. The Brits have a (perverted?) sense of, if not fair-play, then at least sort of admiration for the underdog... As for the empire - They've already won - the world speaks (you certainly write) english! The empire is in the mind of the planet's population...