Empireland: EURO 2020, Racism and Nostalgia | Sathnam Sanghera
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The Complexity of Empire
We see ourselves as the country that won World War II to the exclusion of all of the history, you know, we defeated the evil Nazis. And what that does is it helps us forget that we run the biggest empire in human history - which for at least a century if not longer was willfully white supremacist. So I think that's very problematic. But when we do remember empire, we do so very simplistically. When empire was so many different things, at one point it was very into slavery, then it was very much against slavery. We had abolition, right? At one point,you know, the British and India were happily marrying Indian women... Then suddenly it's possible for white
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