What if ?

xxxxxxl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iXx96DVHX8

Up late due to work. I have gone though a number of these kind of videos with different empires. What if the Brits never got off their little Island. How much different would the world look and be. Would it be better or worse. The speaker in this video is correct that France would have taken up the mantel. Imagine no common law, banking systems that we know. If America remained native American that's the largest part of innovation gone from the world. It's a head scratcher to be sure. Ofc the Empire was terrible for the majority of people but it also brought things like trains.

xxxxxxl

Just for context this is another similar video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ImebebQAGs

FrancieBrady

Human nature, if it hadn't been the British, it would have been someone else. Not sure of the value of this navel gazing. Societies would have developed without colonisation. Empire still has profound effects here and they are mostly tragic and debilitating.

Jim_Hodge

What if? What's the point of that????

What if the meteor had missed?

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119923765#Comment_119923765

What meteor ? Were we hit by a meteor last night ?

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119924513#Comment_119924513

Technically it was an asteroid and it was 66 million years ago. But what if it hadn't hit?.?

Brenn7214

Good question although the Dutch were the first Europeans to colonise and settle what is now the USA. New York was originally called New Amsterdam and also many other towns and areas had, and many still have, Dutch names. Religious repression back in the day in England where supporters of English religions that didn’t recognise whoever was king or queen at the time as being the head of their church had their land and possessions and often their lives taken away. Many of these dispossessed English immigrated to Holland to work as servants for the wealthy Dutch. Holland was one of the wealthiest countries in the world back then. From Holland many English workers went to America to work as indentured servants for the Dutch-Americans. Like every new wave of immigrants to arrive in pretty much any country, the English suffered extreme racism when they arrived in America. They were looked down upon as being poor, dirty and stupid. There were laws that forbid the English and even the children of English people born in America from marrying Dutch people. English people were only allowed to work in menial labour jobs even if they were qualified professionals. The word Yankee was originally applied to the English in America by the Dutch. “Yan” means head in Dutch and “kee” means cheese. “Cheesehead” is an insulting word in Dutch meaning a stupid person. Australia was originally called New Holland, (New) Zealand is an area in Holland. South Africa was mostly settled by the Dutch. Basically the English followed the Dutch around the world. If the English hadn’t left their island, the Dutch (and the Germans) would have continued making the USA. Germans make up the largest ethnic group in the USA followed by the Irish and then the Scandinavians and then the English.

20Wheel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058273427/what-if

Except the French did go to the Americas, independent of Britain. As did the Spanish. Theres even evidence of vikings in Canada.

Banking systems exist from long before the British. And civil law is a perfectly good system, still in use in France, all of Scandanavia, Germany, Japan, China, all of south America, vast majority of Europe and elsewhere, also in Quebec/Montreal.