A sense of entitlement and moral superiority.
All your wealth and development is the direct result of over exploitation of the global south.
You shouldn’t feel pride in your history. You should feel deep, DEEEEP shame. Every waking second of your lives.
I don’t agree with “every waking second” of their lives (it’s just paralyzing to live like that, wouldn’t be productive to help solve the current situation) and maybe other details of your wording but I do agree with the general gist. Once you start critically reading history and looking at the present it’s hard not to do that math.
At the very least I would love if I hadn’t to periodically suffer some online European conservative (particularly common seem to be the Spaniard and British ones) gloating about their perceived superiority, wealth, civility, etc. Or parroting their learned Official Histories.
Yeah I was pretty mad when I wrote that. Being an immigrant to the more central provinces of the Imperial Core makes you realize the dissonance and hypocrisy much more vividly…
Ofc I don’t think it makes sense for anyone to live paralysed by guilt. Maybe some of the wealthier heirs of colonialism, but like 99.99% of people deserve a chance to learn and understand and change. Guilt can be a tool for that. But it also can be a detriment.
