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Why is the common wealth countries like Canada and Australia looks at the British Empire with such respect but countries like India (I'm indian) and US looks at their rule as tyrannical? Like currencies of Canada and Australia have the queen on them. Were the British simply nice to them?

by /u/igorwaltz in /r/AskHistorians

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