The nationalist bases territorial rights on jus sanguinis

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That is to say, relative economic backwardness is not the result of imperialist exploitation but an invitation to it, hence the claims by tribal peoples for "land rights" and economic equality must for an imperialist seem hypocritical, since the tribal identity and rights which such peoples claim relate to a state of economic backwardness which they equally reject. In short, they want to have their cake and eat it. The nationalist response to this is that all peoples have a right to be different. But the imperialist does not recognize or even understand such a right, it contradicts the essence of what empire is all about. and the imperialist on jus solis. The difference is profound.

Empires are seldom planned. More often they grow out of a reaction to circumstances. Their greatness is often "thrust upon them". The British Empire began as a commercial enterprise by a few companies job function email list and swashbucklers whose adventures were usually financially underwritten by speculators, notably the monarch. Its growth was largely a matter of chance acquisition- the Bermudas for instance became British as a result of a shipwreck, an "accidental colony" Sir Thomas Gates called them, and there were many others. Far from consciously seeking to conquer the world, the British government voluntarily abandoned West Africa to the defeated French in the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

The British government took over responsibility for India from the East India Company in 1784 only thanks to the efforts and machinations of determined imperialists like Warren Hastings. Singapore, according to that typically imperialistic figure Thomas Stanford Raffles, founder of London Zoological Gardens (themselves an appropriate sign of imperial curiosity, collecting instinct and universalism) was "acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness". Similarly, the history of Roman expansion is that of a city state being dragged into neighbours' quarrels, (Caesar's Gallic campaigns began as a defensive measure against the Helvetic tribes, even the invasion .