Britain’s scattered overseas possessions lacked organic ties to the metropole
Evidence
The British Empire, on the other hand, was a grab-bag of primarily tropical possessions scattered over every continent. Only a minority of the subjected peoples had any long-standing religious, linguistic, cultural, or even political and economic, ties with the metropole. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 364
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Continental imperialism lacked geographic distance to separate foreign illegality from home legality.