Contrasting POV: Imperialist vs. Indigenous
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The History of Imperialism - Imperialist vs. Indigenous Point of View
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- European Imperialist View
- Rudyard Kipling
- Africa
- British Parliament
- China
- Opium [is] probably less harmful thangin, and anyway it [is] the Chinese whoinsist[ed] on smoking it…
- Lord Kitchener
- India
- It is this consciousness of the inherent superiority of the European which has won for us India. However well educated and clever a native may be, and however brave he may prove himself, I believe that no rank we can bestow upon him would cause him to be considered an equal of the British officer.
- Indigenous View
- Kipling's poem encouraged the feeling that imperialism in places like Africa was a noble duty.
- Chief Machemba
- Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.
- The idea that Britain had the right to export opium to China - a drug that was illegal in their own nation- is justified in this quote by British Prime Minister William Melbourne.
- Commissioner Lin Zexu
- The overt racism in Kitchener's view of India was common. This assumption of superiority guided policy-making in British India.
- Ram Mohan Roy
- I have listened to your words but can find no reason why I should obey you -- I would rather die first. If it should be friendship that you desire, then I am ready for it, today and always; but to be your subject, that I cannot be. I do not fall at your feet, for you are God's creature just as I am.
- Let us ask, where is your conscience? I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden in your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood.
- The British Occupation is not ideal, but certainly some of the ideas of Europe are preferable to our antiquated ways.
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- This famous quote from Chief Machemba of the Yao tribe is a good example of the enlightened intellect of many African leaders. Machemba is addressing a German military commander.
- In this letter to Queen Victoria, Government official Lin Zexu points out the hypocrisy of the British opium trade. The letter was ignored, and the British launched a military campaign.
- Ram Mohun Roy despised the British as a young man. Eventually he decided that some of the cultural practices in India like Sati and arranged child marriages were inferior to the British.
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- Dar es Salaam - frankdouwes - (Engedély Attribution )
- Forbidden City, Beijing - IvanWalsh.com - (Engedély Attribution )
- kanji_peace_peace-PHOTOS-OLGA-LEDNICHENKO-PEACE-WORLD-IMAGES - lednichenkoolga - (Engedély Attribution )
- TajMahal - Balaji Photography - 2,800,000 Views and Growing - (Engedély Attribution )
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