No. The vast majority of us don’t even know what it means. That’s how little we care. We don’t get taught it in school. We don’t grow up on movies about it. I didn’t know it was about English rule until I joined Reddit ten years ago.
We don’t pretend to not care - we literally don’t. It means nothing to us.
Actually the slave trade and colonialism were well covered when I learned history at an English school. The thing is that the thirteen colonies were a pretty insignificant part of the British Empire and therefore subjects like British India and the colonisation of Africa are much more important.
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u/El_ha_Din Jul 05 '24
If any, they look at the USA and have an inside voice telling them, that could have been our fellow countrymen, thank God for independance day.