Latin American Empires
Jessie Sisavat
Professor Duarte
World History 51
Nov 10 2015 Tuesday Reaction Paper 3
Chapter 18 entitled Colonial Encounters narrates the ways in which encounters among European empires and peoples of Africa and Asia brought about oppression, abusive labor relations, and poverty to some African, Latin American, or Asian colonies. Discuss the relationship between empires and its colonies, how does Strayer depict empires, is he overly sympathetic to the colonies and its peoples, provide examples and explain.
Robert Strayer expresses how the European powers oppression against the African and Asian region became one of the painful events in global history. In 1750’s, the British empire took over India which was significance to the western …show more content…
For example the image in chapter 18, it depicts Africans being taught or forces to do something that they have not done before. The lady whom sits on the chair looks like a British teacher that is teaching the Africans the “way of the world”.(Strayer 905) The images shows how controlling the White Europeans are by letting the audience see the face expression of the Africans.
Another disturbing image in chapter 18, was the racial image of progressive development of man. The image has six section of what a man or a person should look like. In chronological order, the image A. is a gorilla, B. African, C. Civilize African with modern clothing, D. Native Americans, E. Asians, and finally F. The White Man. (Strayer 883) This basically means that being white is the originality of being a human and the rest is considered barbaric.
Chapter 18 was considered significant because it shows why racism and hatred within today’s society. Racism seems to be created by superiority of one another. Strayer message made me wonder why is our society doesn’t look at the past for answers. It’s written in our history books where things are created by our ancestries and people today are not realizing
Professor Duarte
World History 51
Nov 10 2015 Tuesday Reaction Paper 3
Chapter 18 entitled Colonial Encounters narrates the ways in which encounters among European empires and peoples of Africa and Asia brought about oppression, abusive labor relations, and poverty to some African, Latin American, or Asian colonies. Discuss the relationship between empires and its colonies, how does Strayer depict empires, is he overly sympathetic to the colonies and its peoples, provide examples and explain.
Robert Strayer expresses how the European powers oppression against the African and Asian region became one of the painful events in global history. In 1750’s, the British empire took over India which was significance to the western …show more content…
For example the image in chapter 18, it depicts Africans being taught or forces to do something that they have not done before. The lady whom sits on the chair looks like a British teacher that is teaching the Africans the “way of the world”.(Strayer 905) The images shows how controlling the White Europeans are by letting the audience see the face expression of the Africans.
Another disturbing image in chapter 18, was the racial image of progressive development of man. The image has six section of what a man or a person should look like. In chronological order, the image A. is a gorilla, B. African, C. Civilize African with modern clothing, D. Native Americans, E. Asians, and finally F. The White Man. (Strayer 883) This basically means that being white is the originality of being a human and the rest is considered barbaric.
Chapter 18 was considered significant because it shows why racism and hatred within today’s society. Racism seems to be created by superiority of one another. Strayer message made me wonder why is our society doesn’t look at the past for answers. It’s written in our history books where things are created by our ancestries and people today are not realizing