| > I feel that this is a major source of why Britain (and Europe to a larger extent) is unable to come to terms with reality on a majority of issues today - immigration, foreign policy, economic policy etc. They simply have not come to terms with the loss of their empires and the wealth they brought. I would be so bold at to assert that no millennial really taught that a) Britannia had an empire and b) Britain ruled the waves. Two world wars, and slavery is pretty much all we were taught, unless you specialised. "modern" immigration was/is much more driven by our former membership of the EU than empire. Empire is why our friends had Caribbean grandparents. WWII for polish grandparents, and Idi Amin why they also might have had indian parents born in Uganda. But they were all pretty British to us. They sounded like us, dressed the same. "modern" immigration when I was growing up was mostly Portuguese and Polish, later more baltics when that opened up to schengen. But those later countries were also a product of another empire: USSR. |
Millenial here from the US. I was taught about the British Empire, extensively, in both high school and college. My high school teacher played "Rule, Britannia" (lyrics include "rule the waves") for us to hammer home the point.
Maybe you meant no millennial in Britain?