Cultural imperialism

I am writing this letter as the wife of one of your officers whom you sent to Africa for ‘trade’. I want to urge you to stop sending our people to the wretched and distant land. My husband stayed in Africa for ten long months and has returned a changed person. Before his trip, he always had an exuberance for life, and loved spending time together with our children. Now, he barely speaks, and his once kind eyes are cold and distant, as if replaying the horrors he experienced abroad. In order to…

Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness functioned as a central influence to anyone that desired to lengthen their familiarity on the vulgar circumstances regarding the Congo. In contrast, rather than projecting historical occurrences, he managed to write in pros to display creativity towards a theoretical situation to force the reader to broaden their perspectives of colonization. Subsequent to evaluating the extract from The Heart of Darkness, it became evident to me that the perceptions this novel…

Orwell and Imperialism Abstract: I propose to conduct a research on Imperialism and it’s impact on both the colonized country and the colonizer. In order to a certain the economic, social and historical effects that it has on the nations involved in imperialism. I ultimately hope to find the seeds of imperialism under the mask of anti-imperialism through George Orwell writing “Shooting an elephant”. Imperialism is a policy, which was developed by the superiority and arrogance that could be…

I will be discussing Collier and Gunning’s article, Why has Africa grown slowly? In the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Mazrui, Ali article Democracide: Who killed democracy in Africa? In Collier and Gunning’s paper, Why has Africa grown slowly? I will explain how domestic-destiny and external-destiny are blamed as two of the four reasons for Africa’s poor economic performance. Also, explaining the difference between domestic-destiny and external-destiny and which one Collier states is…

useful, as it allows to give answers to the question that Spurr rises: ‘how does the Western writer construct representation out of the strange and (to the writer) often incomprehensible realities confronted in the non-Western world? What are the cultural, ideological or literary presuppositions upon which such a construct is based?’ The act of looking that is supposedly normal when making a report about a particular subject or place, takes in a different dimension in the eyes of the…

scholar argues that Western Europe’s colonization of the Americas and Africa shifted the ways in which Europeans conceived of difference. Rather than the use of sex characteristics, which had previously been the defining marker of distinction, “the cultural-physiognomic variations between the dominant expanding European civilization and the non-Western peoples that, encountering, it would now stigmatize as ‘natives’,” (Wynter, 1990, p. 358) took precedence. Wynter’s theorization parallels that…

and its keeper is disrupted. When the elephant disappears, his sense of balance and unity disappears along with it.2 The sense of unity symbolizes Japanese society as a whole entity, with its unique cultural values and…

that there is a certain hierarchy to show respect and to bring cohesion within the community. Moreover, the community, women, men and children are involved in many economical activities such as agriculture, manufacture, commerce (13).Besides, their cultural life (spirituality, dance, music) is rich and organized according to specific criteria (12).In short,Equiano’s text shows that Europeans gave a false picture of Africa which altered the African identity. In reality , Africa is fruitful land,…

What if the country you lived in was colonized? What does colonialism even mean? It means that other countries are trying to take over your country. In the film hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina didn’t take that so he tried to stop it and he eventually stopped it. Did you know that Paul Rusesabagina risked his life just to save 1,268 people from dying. And its not cool how nearly a million Tutsi died by their heritage by the rivals Hutus. But that’s not the important stuff, the important stuff…

Analysis Paper: The Things They Carried Part One: The chapter entitled How to Tell a War Story contains a moment from Tim O’Brien’s’ time at war where he recalls when Rat Kiley shoots a baby water buffalo uncontrollably. Rat Kiley has recently lost his best friend Curt Lemon due to their own stupidity. Kiley proves to be in a very delicate state after this, which can explain why he takes his frustration and anger out on this baby buffalo. He doesn’t just shoot the buffalo once to end its’ life.…