Okay, so these were the countries that brought the world
Both World Wars
The Stalin Purges
The Holocaust
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
the genocide of Native Americans and Aboriginal Austrailians.
I'm sure I could list hundreds of more crimes by these "civilized" countries, but frankly, I'm trying not to bring myself down today.
Honestly, that doesn't sound terribly Civilized to me.
brought entirely on the blood and exploitation of other cultures. This is nothing to be proud of.
For which they got the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, the Russian Pogroms, etc. Sounds to me like they didn't get along well with their other "civilized" neighbors.