It's a shame that we have these all too familiar caustic outbursts, spat out in the usual shouty capital letters, except for little old england that gets a small "e", that's england the much loathed country where all the ills of the world, mostly historic get heaped upon it and never mind that pretty much the entire population would have been disenfranchised when we were a colonial power, we should all be prepared to offer grovelling apologies and mea culpas ad infinitum. Lets completely overlook that large swathes of Europe were also colonial powers too. Deeply entrenched parochialism and bigotry comes across loud and clear, it must be a terrific drawback to lack any sort of impartiality whatsoever to not know that all mankind has a deeply dark side and that doesn't pertain to any one race or country. Genocide after genocide has been committed since the beginning of time, the start of the 20th century saw Turkey's annihilation of thousands of Armenians that was before Germany got into their stride, and aside from the Holocaust, as in Iam's example, look what they inflicted on other parts of Europe, their reparations were paltry and in any event could never be enough, Greece certainly doesn't think so, aside from the atrocities they inflicted on the people of Greece, the Nazis stole artworks and plundered Greek Banks, yes it could be argued that present day Germany could be a bit more magnanimous in writing off some of the Greek debt when they themselves got rebuilt by virtue of the Marshall Plan post war after leaving the rest of Europe in ruins, but lets not go there that's a whole different thread. Could Japan ever compensate China for the rape of Nanking, largely forgotten now. Country after country would be forever in the debt for their wrong doings and as others who have lived abroad and done more research have pointed out, whilst all the world was behaving badly, Scotland didn't stand alone as some beacon of righteousness! but then the most Scottish posters don't bang on in quite the same vein, they're not so ridiculously blinkered.
Personally, I think much more should be made of present day slavery and trafficking, not to mention the new colonialists, Chinese aren't all over Africa like a rash for ultruistic reasons.