Worst Colonial Empires/Powers

Out of these Colonia Empires PowersWhich one was worst?

  • Britain

    Votes: 11 9.6%
  • France

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Spain

    Votes: 13 11.3%
  • Portugal

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Belgium

    Votes: 49 42.6%
  • Netherlands

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Germnay

    Votes: 5 4.3%
  • Russia

    Votes: 2 1.7%
  • Japan

    Votes: 21 18.3%
  • Austria-Hungary

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • United States

    Votes: 6 5.2%
  • Italy

    Votes: 2 1.7%
  • Ottomans

    Votes: 1 0.9%
  • Other (Specify)

    Votes: 3 2.6%

  • Total voters
    115
  • Poll closed .
I'd say that there has to be a clear distinction - legal, administrative, etc. - between the "metropole", the colonizing power, and the occupied areas - after all, Poles, Austrian Germans, and Czechs were fairly equal "under the dynasty" in the Austrian half of AH, even if Germans tended to predominate. Otherwise, all multi-national states would have to be called "colonial", regardless of how power is distributed.

Bruce
 
And given that this is the post-1900 section, I'd have to give it to the Germans- after all, the move east was explicitly meant as a colonial and colonizing enterprise. Didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in Africa before 1918, either.

Bruce
 

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Has to be Belgium.

3 colonies, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.

Genocides commited, 1. Congo.

Worst shape of any colony on independence, Congo.

Countries involved in brutal civil wars posr independence, 3. Congo, Burundi and Rwanda.

Genocides commited after independence, 1. Rwanda.

Black university graduates resident in African colonies at independence, 3.

I strongly recommend reading "King Leopold-s ghost" if you want to know what utter shits the Belgians were.

You're technically wrong. Belgium only had one colony: Congo. Rwanda and Burundi were mandates.
 
I voted for Belgium, who ran the most exploitative and barbaric colonial empire of all the european nations...if basically one colony counts. Japan comes close, but not enough.
 
1: That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

Yes because what you said doesn;t really have that much to do with the potato famine since its root causes which lay in the agricultural and trade policies of british imperialism.
I mean we can go over the ins and outs of the act of union and how this affected ireland and what the exact legal status of ireland was and how the majority of the population being catholics had no place in it and so on but its just pedantry at the end of the day. None of it changes the fact that the conditions for the potato famine both within ireland and in terms of the export market and the disastrously slow response of famine releif were quite clearly created by british influence.

2: Do you know what Anglo-Irish means?

Its a fairly common term and generally refered to those of generally english descent who'd lived there a while and thus became ''anglo-irish'' in order to seperate themselves from the rest of ireland, who they considered to be culturally inferior, it also was often used more loosely to cover groups like irish protestants aswell.
If your still querying this, a simple search on google will provide you with further information http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/The_Anglo-Irish

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When were you in school. 50s/60s?

Na i was in juniors so that was early 90's, it was a historical re-enactment thingy we did at school.

A fight back against the commonly accepted view that it was all bad.

No its not the commonly accepted view and never has been. The british empire didn't really end until the early 60's. Since then the fact that we ran an empire that ruled over 1/4 of the worlds population is generally swept under the carpet, you get a bit from the pro-empire camp and a lot less from the anti, but generally the official line is to try to ignore it. Hence there are no memorials to 30 million dead indians in London last time i looked, no exhibitions on the horrors commited against the ''mau mau'', no attempt to look at the economic structure behind the empire or teach its failing in our schools.
Recently it seems it became less fashionable to ignore it and more fashionable in certain political circles to claim its something to be ''proud of'' which personally i just find ridiculous. Its most likely just the product of the string of military interventions britain and the US have been involved in recently, i would guess it'll slowly go out of fashion again in the next few years.
 
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