19 Feb 2022 5:55 pm
Cannonpointer » 19 Feb 2022, 6:52 pm » wrote: ↑ Yeah... Running **** in India ain't zackly "diversity" by today's standards. Kinda the opposite...
it was back then, especially during the rise of liberalism and nationalism.
monarchs were actually quite happy with diversity. it simply meant more power to them.
liberalism contained within it a 'right' of 'self determination'....hidden in the phrase "no taxation without representation".
Now i am not a liberal myself, of course. but that aspect of liberalism agrees with my own perspective...and happens to be the only part of liberalism that was discarded in the 1960s