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Quite hypocritical, considering France still controls renmants of its colonial empire.While you are at it, why don't you return all the Indian land you occupy. :emot15:
Quite hypocritical, considering France still controls renmants of its colonial empire.While you are at it, why don't you return all the Indian land you occupy. :emot15:
Those items definitely have a lot of cultural and historical value to those whom they should rightfully belong to, if not for us, although I'd rather they stay in India. Koh-i-Noor is definitely valuable for us, yet it is not as valuable as it was when it was in one piece. Again, I'd like to have it back to India.Voluntarily giving is not the same as forcibly taking.
If Burma asks for their pagoda back or Egypt asks for their mummies, I would fully support giving them back to their orginal countries.
However, I doubt either of those items have the same cultural significance (not to mention sheer monetary value) as the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
Spoils of war... every Indian and Chinese ruler who won did the same thing. Only after their descendants were defeated did they lose their spoils. Now the descendants of the losers are whining for something that has been in effect since the start of time. You are in no position to demand anything as you haven't won anything.That shows the so called politically correct europeans are morally bankrupt. You made money buy looting the treasures and now u want to make money by selling the same to the rightful owners.In that sense hitler was better person to keep you french under his toes.
By choice except for New Caledonia which will have a referendum in 4 years. None of the people China occupies have a vote. Big difference... choice vs occupation.Quite hypocritical, considering France still controls renmants of its colonial empire.
So you'd be alright if you were invaded and all your stolen wealth taken back rather than just giving the stolen wealth back to its rightful owners ?Spoils of war... every Indian and Chinese ruler who won did the same thing. Only after their descendants were defeated did they lose their spoils. Now the descendants of the losers are whining for something that has been in effect since the start of time. You are in no position to demand anything as you haven't won anything.
We already where... you don't hear anymore griping about what Hitler stole that we never got back. At some point, it is time to let things go... 70 years since WWII and we let that go in the 60s. This colonial stuff happened 150 years ago.So you'd be alright if you were invaded and all your stolen wealth taken back rather than just giving the stolen wealth back to its rightful owners ?
I too think that there are things that we should simply let go of. Yes, it remains an emotional issue, but emotions are always matters of the heart while intelligence is that of the mind. A thorough study of the Middle East Conflict would clearly indicate that the emotional attachment towards Jerusalem for Jews, Christians and Muslims alone has caused death, destruction and bloodshed on enormous scale.We already where... you don't hear anymore griping about what Hitler stole that we never got back. At some point, it is time to let things go... 70 years since WWII and we let that go in the 60s. This colonial stuff happened 150 years ago.