Timeline for Has there ever been a situation where the "motherland" treated its colonies well anywhere in the world?
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| Oct 31, 2020 at 0:54 | comment | added | C Monsour | Yes. Read Samuel Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny. Great Britain treated its North American colonies remarkably well. But it treated them less well over time , and they revolted though they were still being treated arguably more favorably than subjects in England. | |
| Oct 30, 2020 at 22:02 | answer | added | thieupepijn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 21:39 | comment | added | llywrch | Is Greenland considered a colony of Denmark? If so, maybe that would be an example. | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 20:04 | answer | added | capet | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 9, 2019 at 15:17 | comment | added | Astor Florida | I'm going to come out and say it: No! | |
| Oct 9, 2019 at 14:09 | answer | added | mikeboix | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 5:18 | comment | added | Vun-Hugh Vaw | @SJuan76 Well could be something like not making colonized people slaves or exploiting dry their labor or natural resources like the French did to Haiti, providing them with education and human rights. The reason I asked this question is because I read a book which said it's crucial to keep the colony dumb and uncivilized cuz thereve been bad precedences. And I thought "what the hell is the author referring to? When was that ever not the case? Is this book just flat out communist propaganda?" | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 0:14 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/921167680064892928 | ||
| Oct 19, 2017 at 19:57 | comment | added | user18963 | @Statsanalyst Right. Us North Americans often get that a bit blurry, even when we do (or should) know better. | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 19:35 | comment | added | Statsanalyst | @mickeyf I think you mean "British", not "English". | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 19:27 | answer | added | Statsanalyst | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 18:42 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 18:06 | comment | added | jamesqf | You have to understand that you probably are getting a one-sided view of things. The people who ran the anti-colonial revolutions, and most likely placed themselves in positions of power after those revolutions, have a vested interest in convincing people that they're better off. It's even more difficult to find a neutral view because "colonialism" is out of fashion even in the mainstream of the former colonial powers. History is written by the victors :-( | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 17:30 | answer | added | tj1000 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 13:34 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | I'm guessing the (non-French-speaking) parts of Canada didn't feel they were particularly badly treated. But perhaps they are just too polite to bring it up... | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 11:38 | comment | added | user18963 | To filter out the "racism and chauvinism and all", consider what is now the USA. While there were plenty of non-English, the leading citizens were of English descent, considered themselves English, and most struggled to maintain a good relationship with the Mother Country and not break away, but eventually came to a point of armed revolution. Colonies were in many cases brought into being or maintained with the idea of being captive markets and/or sources of cheap materials and labor. They could not both be these things and have their occupants be first class citizens at the same time. | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 9:30 | comment | added | Rekesoft | What have the romans ever done for us? ;) | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 9:11 | comment | added | MSalters | The idea of a "motherland" acting is also somewhat underdefined. The Dutch VOC was a company, not a country. After the Dutch State took over Indonesia, it did introduce higher education and a People's Council, but companies did continue to treat their Indonesian workers rather poorly. Then again, this was the late 19th century, and the exact same complaints were made all over the world. | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 9:01 | comment | added | mart | How far back in history do we want to go & what do you mean precisly with motherland & colony? I'm asking because the 'colonies' founded by phoenicians or greeks around the mediterranean may count, but those shared very few characteristics with the later colonial empires. | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 8:56 | comment | added | SJuan76 | It depends on what you understand as "well", to what you compare it, and which population group you want to focus on. In colonial times there was the concept of "civilization mission" by which colonized people profitted from colonization because of the introduction of more advanced technologies. Some people may have valued independence more than material wealth, some Egyptians might have prefered British rule to the alternative of Ottoman rule, some people may have profited from the change of regime and social structures while others suffered great hardships because of that... | |
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| Oct 19, 2017 at 8:32 | history | asked | Vun-Hugh Vaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |