ifStatement wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires
The British Empire is the largest ever in most ways. The idea any current person who considers them self British should be proud of that fact is moronic however. Not only are you sending up a bunch of absoloute c***s but unless you are heir to a lordship your ancestors were probably the guys who got treated like gak by said c***s not the c***s themselves. Leave the meaningless patriotism to the Americans.
In my opinion if John Harrison could have lived to see the devastation the BE wrought, he like Robert Oppenheimer would have regreted the technological revolutions he gave birth to.
Be aware, the Empire was not built by chinless and inbred aristos, it was built by the British Working Class, the most formidable and resolute and hardnosed bastards on the face of the earth.
We, the working class of Britain, should take pride in the empire that we built and the British sense of fair play, decency and honour kept in good order. I've watched footage of village elders in Zimbabwe calling for the British to return and overthrow Mugabe, who is committing genocide there. We ruled, for the most part, fairly and should have a lot less of a hangup about our Empire than we do. Many European nations were carving up empires when we did, very few if any made as fair and decent a job of it as we, just look at who remained in the Commonwealth.
If you want to know what an evil empire looks like, take a serious look at what the Belgians did in the Congo... Vicious and horrific. Leopold II treated it as his private torture garden.
