A personal analysis of the most important themes for the set of readings from week 3

1. Imperialism

2. ViewsonEmpire Many Americans choose to not recognize America as being or ever having been an empire. "The depository of power is always unpopular." Benjamin Disraeli wrote. Imperialism wasn't always looked down on. Some people saw it as helping poor and ignorant people come into the light. In Britain: A British travelling commissioner expressed the opinion that foreigners were "degraded, ignorant, swept by disease; how low, low, low they stand," and that they may "one day make them right-thinking Englishmen, men with souls as white as any other,'

3. Culture of Imperialism The language of empire was all pervasive. The names of saints and kings ran all across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. The imperialist attitude and view of these foreign lands came before the actual gunboats, soldiers, or investor. Pro imperialist / Anti imperialist Rudyard Kipling wrote The White Man’s Burden After the Spanish American War, anti-imperialist voices began to emerge