Imperialism In White Man's Burden And Things Fall Apart
White Man’s Burden and Things Fall Apart is a poem and a book that are about the same general topic. They are both about problems in Europe. The white man and women are making it difficult for the Igbo tribe to live where they want to. So the white man and women are taking over the Igbos home land and how the Igbos culture is. This is called Imperialism. Imperialism is when one country takes over another. In Things Fall Apart the missionaries wanted to take over the Igbos culture by making them convert to their religion Christianity. They wanted the kids to learn Christianity so they could have them go to church and have them understand what they were making them learn. “He went back to the church and Told Mr.Kiaga that he had decided to go to Umuofia where the Missionaries had set up a school to teach young christians to read and write.” (pg 152) This quote tells us that the Missionaries built a church so that the Igbo children could learn christianity. That is exactly one country taking over another. Reading White Man's Burden there was one quote that was really about Imperialism. “ Go send your sons to exile/ serve your captives needs” was exactly imperialism. It is telling you to send the white man away from their country and go and serve the African Americans. The white man were slaving the African
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So the white people had an advantage because the white people could boss the African Americans around like they were nothing. They also have different authors. Different authors have different ways of telling their readers the problems in the writing so there points are going to be different. They are not going to be the same words at all. Imperialism has different impacts on people, so people are going to have different ways of looking at the
So the white people had an advantage because the white people could boss the African Americans around like they were nothing. They also have different authors. Different authors have different ways of telling their readers the problems in the writing so there points are going to be different. They are not going to be the same words at all. Imperialism has different impacts on people, so people are going to have different ways of looking at the