Sure, that was a really gentle and neutral way to ask your question mate.
...it was a valid question, if you feel threatened by a valid question, perhaps you should examine the moral ground you stand on.
No need to put any citation, it's just obvious
....so, no facts, just feels?...it's very hard to verify and document feels...
Romans invaded Gauls and brought tons of good things with them, the most important thing being standardized writing
....do you think the Gauls were happy to give up their way of life and bend knee to a conqueror, because they brought them an alphabet, with which the Romans could start the real work of undermining the Gaul's traditional way of life?
i believe they just called themselves "Gauls"....and it might be an interesting exercise for you to find some citations, so you could have at least one fact at your command, instead of your catalogue of "Feels to fit any occasion"....
Lol no didn't feel threatened by his question, and didn't say it was invalid.
In the 1950s, before decolonization, the expression “Corrèze before the Zambezi” appeared, a famous aphorism of so-called “
Cartierist ” thought, which affirmed that colonies cost more than they bring in
54 ,
55 . Later, authors like
Jacques Marseille and
Bernard Lugan consider that the colonization of Africa cost the colonizing countries much more than it brought in. Marseilles estimated at
70 billion gold francs (1913 value) the overall deficit of colonization in Africa, or
the equivalent of three times the amount of Marshall aid for France 56 .
Jacques Marseille writes however: “Measuring how much the colonial empire cost and brought in France is therefore a futile “operation” which is above all part of the ideological battles that decolonization provoked (Jacques Marseille
56 , p. 12- 13 ). and Raymond
Aron , for his part, thinks that the question is
undecidable because the expenses and revenues derived from colonization are too intertwined. For him, the “[…] same investments […] made in metropolitan France or in territories that are not under French sovereignty […] could have equal or higher returns
57 . »The main advantage that the metropolises derive from the colonies is support for their monetary zones, the
pound sterling for the English and
the gold franc for the French.
"The […] difficulty when one wants to establish an objective balance sheet is that insofar as the colonies, the former colonies, the territories of the Community are intertwined in the French economic system, it becomes almost impossible to establish a discrimination between benefit and cost, yield and burden. As soon as the territories are integrated into the French economic system, they simultaneously represent for the State a certain number of billions of expenses entered in the budget, for companies and private individuals a certain number of billions, of a fairly analogous, moreover, to income or orders. »
—Raymond Aron
57
fr.wikipedia.org
Also, about Gauls, read better.
"Do i need a citation from a gallic to prove it was a good side effect ? Don't think so.
Does not mean they were right to do so though, exactly like european colonization."