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Imperialism In The Passage 'Shooting An Elephant'

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Once imperialism started, these large and powerful countries began to realize the benefits of taking over weaker countries to exploit cheap labor and natural resources. Imperialism and colonization became a sign of supremacy and almost an unspoken measuring stick for these large and powerful countries. I 'm not sure you would exactly call the imperialists evil, but they were very greedy and primarily focused on attaining any resource available , by any means, to increase economic profitability for their own country. This self centered and egotistical approach also motivated beliefs that their culture and religion were superior to those of the inferior nations. In the passage "Shooting an Elephant", the individual went to do his job as

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