Baca Black Sheep Imperialism

“Baa Baa Black Sheep” is a nursery rhyme that many people know of as a kid, but with a more, almost whimsical view, can be turned into something far more sinister. The black sheep giving wool to the person asking says that there are 3 bags of the wool, one for the master, one for the kind and one for the little boy who lives down the lane. At first, one may just overlook that, but the sheer fact that a black sheep has to give a bag of wool to the master can be perceived as a slave giving his wool that he sheered to the master for no charge. Also, other people receive the benefit of the slaves work, being the king and the civilians within the nation that the black slave inhabits. Though it may seem like arbitrary ideas all are being pulled out of a hat, the nursery rhyme is a great example of how imperialism worked throughout history. …show more content…
Though most of the time, one does not see the real work in the background that goes on to make the imperialistic nation so strong, but imperialism does much more than that. Imperialism also affects the society in which the nation lives in and most imperialistic governments use some form of propaganda to make sure that the inhabitants within the great nation only think good of the nation so that the government can do as it pleases. Though at hindsight, imperialism seems like a great ideology, but the reality is that imperialism causes madness of many forms. The objectification of women, the automation of the African inhabitants of the Congo River, to the programming of the workers within the Company, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, displays the reality of the effects of imperialism. As Hassan Nasrallah once said, “So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.”