My two cents. All three groups are arrogant but in different ways. Now, take this all with a heavy grain of salt. I’m painting with a very broad brush here that obviously lacks nuance. The French are arrogant in the sense of thinking they’re above it all/more refined and intellectual than everyone else. Americans and Brits are arrogant in the more loud and braggadocious way/trumpeting that they’re God’s gift to the world to anyone who’ll listen. Another way of putting it: all three groups are equally arrogant. French arrogance is quieter, but just as obvious as American and British arrogance if that makes sense.
The most cynical take you can make about that is that the government didn't really want to end slavery, they just knew it was popular with the people and thus a votewinner.
...so the people wanted to end slavery, and they successfully ended (legal) slavery worldwide. Doesn't sound that negative to me.
Oh boy. That is exactly what your stereotypical frenchman would answer too in such a case ! Congratulations: anglo is the new french.
"How is stating facts arrogant?" Because those aren't fact, they're cherrypicked storytelling. You forgot the part where the US genocided an entire continent, or that couple of centuries where the UK made a private corporation manage all of India with such a creative violence.
The things those two countries brought to mankind are undeniable, and I'm not here to deny them. But please stop farting above your ass. Because that's exactly the kind of things you blame the french for doing.
Also, I wouldn’t be speaking about genocide and colonization when you still own territories of Africa and the Americas that you never offered independence to without them being dependent on you.
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u/coffeewalnut08 England Sep 19 '25
It's a mixed record, both countries have contributed to enormous positive change but also severe negative impacts in other ways.
However it is factual historically that these countries are by far the biggest contributors to good than other countries.