The Consequences Of British Imperialism

When people can pursue what is morally right to do, regardless of what reaction their actions will provoke from others, they will never feel repentant for what they have done. Nevertheless, it is not always possible to follow one’s conviction. For instance, in an imperialist system, which involves the exploitation and torment of colonized people, some citizens of colonizers face such situations in which they cannot comply with their convictions. When the government of a country oppresses another country’s citizens and restricts their freedom, the government does not reckon that this oppression will affect its own citizens. The aftermath is harsh for a colonizer who does not support or agree with the imperialist project because he is very likely

The self-perpetuating power of colonizers brings about such deplorable conditions for the oppressed people that they become subject to drastic material and non-material deprivation. They realize ultimate level of lack of self respect, and their culture, native language and conceivably, their religious views are in jeopardy of vanishing. During the years of British imperialism in Burma, the native people underwent brutally degrading treatment of the authorities. The situation was even lamentable in gaols, in which prostration and anguish of the Burmese prisoners were evident.(Orwell 1) For all that, many officers of colonizing nations reproach their own government for having to accomplish the merciless duty incumbent on them. In “Shooting an elephant” by George Orwell, the narrator, a police officer is an image of imperialist domination in Burma. The natives undergo ruthless governance of the British which is why under no circumstance can they appreciate any citizen of the ruling country; ergo, although the horrendous tragedy that the British Empire caused the Burmese evokes commiseration from the him towards the natives, they do not regard his position or legitimize his authority as a police officer. Conversely, they make every effort to embarrass and belittle him in the community. (Orwell 1) In other cases,

In French colonialism, for instance, the government had extremely harsh rules for the colonized nations that even for its own citizens to digest this obnoxiously cruel and inhuman treatment was impossible. In “The Guest” by Albert Camus, which is dedicated to the violent French colonization in Algeria, native people are being abused and persecuted by the French authorities and looked upon as guests in their own country. The main character, Daru is a French-Algerian schoolmaster, who feels secure living a monastic life as a teacher, for he is removed from the cultural war between Algeria and France, thereby secluding himself from witnessing the execrable and repulsive conduct towards Algerians. He is commanded to take an Arab prisoner, who has killed his cousin, to police headquarters. He refuses French government, which is demanding a severe punishment for a person who is not French, conceiving that the Arab should not be subjected to laws outside his culture. However, Daru does not overtly emancipate the Arab from incarceration and determines two options for him instead. He can either run away and join the hiding nomads or surrender to the police. The truth is that Daru would intrinsically embrace Arab’s getaway, but he tries to circumspectly assuage his true feelings as he lacks courage to incur the risk to disobey the rules of the