A bit of both I daresay!!! Incidentally, although there have undoubtedly been awful incidents committed by Britain, other nations in the world have done equally if not worse injustices to other people/countries, but it's always Britain we have to indignantly hear about as if we were the only ones! If we're such an intolerable country a) why are a good proportion of the world desperate to live here and b) Why do people who clearly dislike this island and everything about it, go on living here? Surely it would be more sensible to go somewhere more convivial, with a more acceptable history. We can do absolutely nothing about the past, so going on about it in order to pull ourselves down is just pointless. It happened, it was disgraceful, but we can't alter it, so why go on about it?!