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> The British introduced electricity, railways, capitalism and a thousand other things we take for granted behind those saffron-tinted glasses.

Some people love being a slave, but that is not a requirement for having electricity, railways or capitalism. Just look at any other country.

> naive, childish, saffron-tinted glasses.

A brain with less self-righteousness has more space for common sense and logic.






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