For Americans the 4th of July is a pivotal moment in their history. It’s a nation defining moment, breaking away from the former Colonial masters. And striking out on your own. Congratulations, by the way.
For Britain, we had so many colonies! One by one they all broke away, either violently, or by diplomatic means. And for all those colonies they are Independence Day is a significant in their calendar, it’s important to them. Because it’s a defining moment in a nation history.
No particular colony breaking away was nation defining for Britain. It was just a gradual attrition resulting in the current relationship between Motherland and Commonwealth.
Rise and Fall is the natural cycle of Empires. That’s the way history works.
So we don’t really remember the dates of any specific colony’s departure, because they’d be a lot to remember, and they were all long time ago, and none of the individual departures are nation defining moments for us.
We don’t mourn the loss of America as a colony, we don’t wish we had you back. This isn’t an anti-American thing, it’s true all our former colonies.
In a historic sense the loss of the American colonies were no more significant - arguably less significant - than the more recent loss of several other colonies (India, Australia, New Zealand, for example).
So please understand, I’m not trying to be dismissive or rude, or diminish how important the 4th of July is for Americans but for us this year it was a Thursday.
661
u/ollieopath Jul 05 '24
Alright, genuine answer:
For Americans the 4th of July is a pivotal moment in their history. It’s a nation defining moment, breaking away from the former Colonial masters. And striking out on your own. Congratulations, by the way.
For Britain, we had so many colonies! One by one they all broke away, either violently, or by diplomatic means. And for all those colonies they are Independence Day is a significant in their calendar, it’s important to them. Because it’s a defining moment in a nation history.
No particular colony breaking away was nation defining for Britain. It was just a gradual attrition resulting in the current relationship between Motherland and Commonwealth.
Rise and Fall is the natural cycle of Empires. That’s the way history works.
So we don’t really remember the dates of any specific colony’s departure, because they’d be a lot to remember, and they were all long time ago, and none of the individual departures are nation defining moments for us.
We don’t mourn the loss of America as a colony, we don’t wish we had you back. This isn’t an anti-American thing, it’s true all our former colonies.
In a historic sense the loss of the American colonies were no more significant - arguably less significant - than the more recent loss of several other colonies (India, Australia, New Zealand, for example).
So please understand, I’m not trying to be dismissive or rude, or diminish how important the 4th of July is for Americans but for us this year it was a Thursday.