In the novel, Heart of Darkness the author Joseph Conrad makes certain remarks about the natives that offends some people. But Joseph Conrad is not a racist because he was just agreeing with the European culture at the time. The only reason Conrad writes like this is because of the social norm of the time. Europe basically saw Africa as a gold mine and came to take what they wanted. They saw them as lessers because they weren’t as civilized as the Europeans and that's how Conrad portrayed them. They had no sympathy towards the natives. The Europeans only saw them as savages. Marlow says “They were dying slowly it was clear.They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of diseases and
