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Revisiting the Empire |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / BRITAIN AND THE WORLD |
| Author: Lincoln Allison |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 5,735 Words, 34,206 Characters |
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Those of us born after World War II in Britain couldn't give a fig for the British Empire. Only in a minority of cases was our disdain inspired by any moral principle. It was just that the thing was out of date and irrelevant to our lives, its image of baggy shorts and dumb devotion to duty in unattractive contrast to the new British we were growing up in. increasingly, Britain was an exciting place culturally; the sterility associated with the stiff upper lip was being replaced by a sharp and lively cynicism that expressed itself in the new "permissive society" through satire, drama, television, and rock music that were among the world's best.
The smart set had taken this view since 1918. At a time when the "mightiest empire the world had ever known" was at its statistical peak, hold...
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...and cultural development and by the links established by modern technology. The implication must be that power, importance, and decline are complex concepts. The economic power of Germany and Japan has created almost zero cultural penetration of the rest of the world; the economic weakness of Britain has not been an obstacle to a continued, sometimes strengthening, worldwide cultural legacy.
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