Lol &quot;We actually don&#x27;t know if India would have been worse or better off without Britain&#x27;s influence, and we can&#x27;t possibly know&quot;<p>See my other statement: Honestly I think this reflects a fairly common sentiment amongst westerners. Not the first time I&#x27;ve heard this; doubt it would be the last. I&#x27;ve even heard white south africans in the west say that south africa would have been better off under apartheid, to be greeted by a chorus of nodding heads. Scary people actually think subjugation is a good thing.<p>Proving my point. It&#x27;s clear you&#x27;re British and shamelessly defending oppression, for what reason I don&#x27;t know. If I had to guess I&#x27;d say, unlike Germany, Britain never had a process of de-empirification akin to the germans realising they as a nation committed a crime and that it was unacceptable.