Canada and India

Whether you see it as a good thing or a bad thing, the British had a large influence on both Canada and India. They brought technology and culture to these places, but they also practically destroyed other people's ways of life, and they tore apart multiple cultures.

In India, the British pretty much invaded and started the "British East India Company" in the 1600s. This began in the same sort of way that the Hudson's Bay company started: A collection of traders. The company continued to grow, and became more and more powerful over time, and were eventually, became a political powerhouse. They began to take control over India; people who they knew nearly nothing about. Many, many years later, Mahatma Gandhi stepped in and said that the British imposing on their culture was unfair.

However, aside from all that, the British DID bring about new things to India. They had an extremely low quality of life, and, although the British imposed on their way of life, I believe it improved it overall. They also brought new technology about, and new ideas, and it's not as if they were killing off they aboriginal people or anything. Yes, the British were out of line in bringing their culture to the unwilling Indians, but was it really that bad?

The British... it really is quite difficult to choose sides. You could be on the side that says that the British did good in bringing sophistication and technology to otherwise under-developed places. On the other hand, they also took away culture and made unfair deals, and, as one can plainly see, Canada's original culture is practically gone at this point. It's really up to us to decide if what the British did was bad or not.