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The British Empire - How things came to be

  Although the British seem always to come out as the bad guys, especially in popular culture. All the villain actors of the evil "The Empire" in the blockbuster Hollywood hit film Star Wars seem to have distinctive upper-class British accents.  Emperor Palpatine , who reigns over this intergalactic evil Empire, talks with a British accent. British actors have played villains or a role taken by American actors using British accents. The idea is that once you see the leading actor speaking with a British accent in a Hollywood movie, they are likely to be a villain. Although the British could be considered evil in many respects, the Atlantic Salve trade, causing wars, genocide, forcing Opium on the Chinese and the occasionally regime change, to name a few. The book claims that it was also a force for good. It has spread its form of Christianity to millions and is responsible for the widespread usage of English as an international language. The abolition of the Slave Trade whic