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“It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.”

Compassion Colonialism Smugness White Man S Burden

Author:David Halberstam

“I'm not seditious. I don't want the Burmans to drive us out of this country. God forbid! I'm here to make money, like everyone else. All I object to is the slimy white man's burden humbug. The pukka sahib pose. It's so boring. Even those bloody fools at the Club might be better company if we weren't all of us living a lie the whole time.”

Colonialism Exploitation White Man S Burden

Book:Burmese Days

Source: Burmese Days

“The lie [is] that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of to rob them. I suppose it's a natural enough lie. But it corrupts us, it corrupts us in ways you can't imagine. There's an everlasting sense of being a sneak and a liar that torments us and drives us to justify ourselves night and day. It's at the bottom of half our beastliness to the natives. We Anglo-Indians could be almost bearable if we'd only admit that we're thieves and go on thieving without any humbug.”

Colonialism Exploitation White Man S Burden

Author:George Orwell

“who is more barbaric? The alleged cannibalistic savages, who at least waited until their victims were dead before they cooked and ate them? Or the European slave traders who thrived on live meat, that is, the exploitation of these human 'animals'?”

Colonialism Cannibalism Objectification Dehumanization White Man S Burden

Book:Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions

Source: Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions