John E Marks
2 min readJun 16, 2024

--

Wow. What a tirade. You obviously hate us Brits but are OK using our language huh? I wasn't born during the colonial era. If you have an anti-colonial gripe direct it at the Chinese who are now buying up large chunks of the most fertile land in Africa. The resultant food is shipped off to China whilst Africans starve. England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland have contributed to vast amounts of scientific progress from Sir Isacc Newton and the rise of the scientific revolution, to covid vaccines developed at pace and sold at cost price to poor countries, to the indusrial revolution and the rise and rise of English as the language of research and development. It is true that industrial and digital espionage has meant many of our discoveries have been purlioned by the highly imitative economies of SE Asia. It is also true that the accident of geography has enabled many of the nations of Arabia to accumulate vast riches whilst the actual experise and hard labour come from western companies and south Asian workers including the 50+ people who were killed in the fire in Kuwait including 45 from India and three from the Philippines. Meanwhile Islam spreads a virulent form of homophobia and misogyny. Modern colonialists come in many shades and colours. I cannot stop you hating my country and its people but I can read the names of of the 137 Nobel laureates from the UK (second only to the USA). The PR of China has 8. Notice the number of Jewish names that occur not only in the 13 laureates from Israel but also from across the world. I think that you may have been a touch hasty in your judgement. Which perfect country are you from by-the-by?

--

--

John E Marks
John E Marks

Written by John E Marks

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

Responses (1)