>>509524546>You weren'tBut we were. On the level expected in pre modern era with gun powder and a thriving textile industry. Brits were ahead I'll grant you that since they had already started manufacturing guns based on gun powder and had far superior ships, their main strength
>You didn't come up with steam enginesAnd? Someone invented steam engine but how is that relevant? And someone invented farming or the wheel, The Chinese invented gun powder, how
is this relevant?
>It would affect you FAAAAAAAR more than us.Could be could be not. I don't see the poor Africans being any worse than they were before. Meanwhile your society, which benefits from unequal trade will certainly fall back hard. As they say, the taller they are the harder they fall.
>We had everything beforeUhh, no? You did not come to our countries with satellite tech and aircraft carriers.
>And the globalization that benefitted us (slightly) has nothing at all to do with IndiaThe hardcore industrialisation that started in London paralleled the colonisation of India. Now how much did the latter effect the former is anyone's guess. But I believe the impact must be big. Anyway , I was not just talking about India but colonialism as a whole. Maybe industrialisation could've started without it but not reached the heights it did without colonisation. But then again a industrialised society would've eventually conquered the backward ones anyway.
This is what all white delusions of grandeur are based on.