English Colonialism
One of the biggest things to impact today's society has been English Colonialism. Not only today's society, English Colonialism also affected the growth and death of many indigenous cultures across the globe.
Before World War One the British Empire was the most powerful unity in the world. Once the first ship departed from 16th Century England, the world would never be the same. Every individual's freedom on every continent was in jeopardy.
As I study and research to write this blog, I have to stop and just take in the fact that I,nor most people educated in the US , can fully understand the true impact that English Colonialism had on the world.
I want to shift my writing on this topic to an overview of what headlines and articles I am coming across while writing. Here are several of them.
British Colonization of the America's.
How British Colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years.
British Colonialism and the Pitfalls of Postcolonial Nationhood in Nigeria.
The impact of British Colonialism on Irish Catholicism.
British Colonialism and the Middle East
British Colonialism a leading contributor to the Palestine/Israel conflict
Those are just a few. There are more. English Colonialism happened in large areas of North America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Africa, and parts of Central and South America.
Think about the scope one group of people had on the cultures of the world. They didn't come to spread goodwill, they came to these lands to take them over. The indigenous cultures of these lands were destroyed. Many were killed and many were enslaved. Forcibly removed from their lands, homes and families to work and die somewhere else in the British Empires.
English Colonialism set up commerce, education and government to benefit the English speaking nationals and further make survival difficult for the people of the Indigenous cultures. The impact of these practices is still felt today and I can strongly say many of these cultures still face some form of these practices in their lives right now.
In fact today there are still 15 countries in the world that are still under British control.
Within just a few generations the continents of the America's were virtually emptied of their native inhabitants. It is estimated that 20 million people may have died in the years after the English invasion. That is 95% of indigenous population of the America's.
It is estimated that Britain enslaved 3.1 million Africans and sent them to the British Colonies and other countries. It is also estimated that 5 to 8 million people died in Africa during the English Colonialism period.
I can go on and on with other cultures throughout the world. I hope to break down the impact on each culture throughout different blogs in the future.
Hopefully this will help us to understand just a little of the impact of English Colonialism. There are many people who understand these impacts better than I can. I haven't experienced them, but I see them and I will share them with my readers. I will share that the world doesn't look like what we were programmed and trained to think what it looks like.
We have to start looking at things through our eyes, and not the eyes of the system. We have to continue to get rid of the impacts of English Colonialism and never allow anything like it to happen again.
Blessings
By Michael Walters
The Ancestor's Fire
Writing the voices of the unheard
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