My grandparents lived under British rule, and let me tell you, it fucking sucked. And amazingly, it sucked for them SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than it did for the vast, vast majority of British subjects, who were browner than they were.
That’s got to be the most ignorant White-Man’s-Burden bullshit I’ve ever read. And he seems to know it, too, but brushes it off with: “Sadly provided you weren’t ethnic, of course.”