The British Empire and the Global Scope of Empire

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There is a separation between the global scope of the british empire and the britian story as it exists in the mainland. At the last commonwealth games, one in five people was unable to name even one country that's in the commonwealth. The ghostly spectre of imperial war continues to operate in the international arena. It sounds cano farcical now, but it later serves certain interests by facilitating innocence, a sense of innocence.

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