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Christian Crispin Condron
Dr. Daniel Clasby
World Civilization
April 27, 2016
Analyzing Primary Sources #2
Beginning in the nineteenth century the philosophy of “Modernism” through the current ruling governments started to take effect as Monarchies along with other governments around Europe were forced to change and react to the peoples wants and needs as a result of the ongoing revolutions occurring amongst that nation’s citizens. This sense of “Modernism” that these Monarchies were going through wasn’t a throwing away of culture and traditions and picking up new ones as you may see today, according to the traditionalist, but a “Modernism” of the “ridding away with the Horse and Buggy in exchange for the Automobile”. A change that was …show more content…
During the period of time where white Europeans were taking part in a humungous land grab of territories in Africa and felt the need to control the African way of life. Taking it upon themselves to take action and turn these “Cretans” into civilized humans. Rudyard Kipling explains to us in The White Man’s Burden that not only are these people lesser, they are a burden to the white man. It is the interfering of the white man with the African culture that brings the African continent into the trading global market, a heavy burden imposed on the white man as Kipling …show more content…
As empires made their way into these countries they also made it into the lives of the people. As mentioned above, empires are not homogenous like nationalism, they are heterogeneous being that empires can span over large areas where there are different cultures. Indigenous people are adopted into the nation’s culture and in many cases cause problems with ethnic Europeans being that these Africans, who were considered lesser human beings by many nationalist Europeans, were being integrated and being made equal to the Europeans. This blending of cultures can be seen in Fadma Amrouche’s writing as she was brought off to a French boarding school and had experienced the education that was being taught in Franc and across Europe in different nations. She and her classmates not only received French names but also sang songs as seen here: “while we sang ‘Auprès de ma blonde’, and ‘Anne of Brittany in her clogs’.” (Primary Source Document #2). With the forcing of these cultures on the African people their own culture was beginning to be replaced by the new European
Christian Crispin Condron
Dr. Daniel Clasby
World Civilization
April 27, 2016
Analyzing Primary Sources #2
Beginning in the nineteenth century the philosophy of “Modernism” through the current ruling governments started to take effect as Monarchies along with other governments around Europe were forced to change and react to the peoples wants and needs as a result of the ongoing revolutions occurring amongst that nation’s citizens. This sense of “Modernism” that these Monarchies were going through wasn’t a throwing away of culture and traditions and picking up new ones as you may see today, according to the traditionalist, but a “Modernism” of the “ridding away with the Horse and Buggy in exchange for the Automobile”. A change that was …show more content…
During the period of time where white Europeans were taking part in a humungous land grab of territories in Africa and felt the need to control the African way of life. Taking it upon themselves to take action and turn these “Cretans” into civilized humans. Rudyard Kipling explains to us in The White Man’s Burden that not only are these people lesser, they are a burden to the white man. It is the interfering of the white man with the African culture that brings the African continent into the trading global market, a heavy burden imposed on the white man as Kipling …show more content…
As empires made their way into these countries they also made it into the lives of the people. As mentioned above, empires are not homogenous like nationalism, they are heterogeneous being that empires can span over large areas where there are different cultures. Indigenous people are adopted into the nation’s culture and in many cases cause problems with ethnic Europeans being that these Africans, who were considered lesser human beings by many nationalist Europeans, were being integrated and being made equal to the Europeans. This blending of cultures can be seen in Fadma Amrouche’s writing as she was brought off to a French boarding school and had experienced the education that was being taught in Franc and across Europe in different nations. She and her classmates not only received French names but also sang songs as seen here: “while we sang ‘Auprès de ma blonde’, and ‘Anne of Brittany in her clogs’.” (Primary Source Document #2). With the forcing of these cultures on the African people their own culture was beginning to be replaced by the new European