> As someone who had no involvement in it and was born nearly two centuries after the first steps, I think it'd probably be a little bizarre for me to be proud of it.
It works both ways though. By the same logic, the West shouldn't feel guilty for slavery and stop the self-flagellation.
It's relevant to what you said. You implied that people from the UK try to wash their hands of slavery by saying they played a big part in ending it. And I'm saying they are right to use that as an argument against those who ignore history and try to pin slavery soley on the West. Without Western Civilization slavery would still be acceptable today. It took the Middle East until the 1960s! to abolish slavery. And it took Western pressure.
It works both ways though. By the same logic, the West shouldn't feel guilty for slavery and stop the self-flagellation.
It's relevant to what you said. You implied that people from the UK try to wash their hands of slavery by saying they played a big part in ending it. And I'm saying they are right to use that as an argument against those who ignore history and try to pin slavery soley on the West. Without Western Civilization slavery would still be acceptable today. It took the Middle East until the 1960s! to abolish slavery. And it took Western pressure.