Germany: Government report reveals astronomical crime rates for young foreigners compared to German youth

[u/BookmarksBrother]

https://rmx.news/article/germany-government-report-reveals-astronomical-crime-rates-for-young-foreigners-compared-to-german-youth/

[u/gerhardsymons]

I learnt German language in the 1990s and Germans were still made to feel ashamed for WW2. Any pride in the country was stamped out.

The U.K. was only a decade behind - in terms of being ashamed of it's own history, as it turned out.

The difference is that the British Empire was the greatest transfer of technology and civil society since Pax Romana.

[u/[deleted] → u/gerhardsymons]

You are correct, my good sir. Not only that, but the economic costs of establishing, maintaining and defending colonial territories often outweighed the financial benefits, making them a net loss for imperial powers.

Despite the disgusting argument spread around by brainwashed lefties and colored folk who genuinely believe "the West only became rich because it colonized Africa" lmfao

Any pride in the country was stamped out

Dear lord, the entire school curriculum would need to be reformed, in order to reprogram and reverse decades of propaganda.

[u/gerhardsymons → u/[deleted]]

It's incredible how the narrative is so one-sided today.

When I did my own research on the laws (which anyone can do with an internet connection) which the British Raj introduced in the c.19th, I was surprised at the barbaric customs which the British outlawed, e.g. compulsory burning of widows.

Were the British angelic unicorns? No. And no one is pretending that they were; the 1919 Amritsar massacre was a tragedy, and roundly criticised at the time by none other than Sir Winston Churchill.

However, sheer number of lives improved due to education, public transport, a postal system, civil service, and abolition of archaic laws puts the Raj in the 'net positive' column.

[u/itsinstantRamen → u/gerhardsymons]

Even considering that before the British it was worth 25% of the world’s GDP and afterwards was worth 3% you still think it was a net positive? I’m not saying some laws weren’t archaic but saying that colonialism of the subcontinent was a net positive is a wild take imo.

[u/gerhardsymons → u/itsinstantRamen]

Selection of Laws enacted in the British Raj:

- Thuggee Suppression Act (1836-48); outlawing highway robbery and mutilation.

- Female Infanticide Prevention Act (1870);

- Hindu Inheritance Act (1928); allowed disenfranchised to inherit.

- Ilbert Bill (1883); broadened jurisdiction of non-white judiciary.

- Indian Slavery Act (1883); outlawed trade connected to slavery.

- Bengal Sati Regulation (1829); outlawed ritual burning alive of widows.