Doug wrote:
>Anyone know how British imperialism represented itself? Did it wear a
>"humanitarian" cloak, or is this a specifically American (moralizing)
>style? Was it more honest about "straight power concepts," as Kennan put it
>in that infamous memo?
Try Kipling:
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed-- Go, bind your sons to exile.
To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught , sullen peoples,
Half -devil and half-child.
(snip) Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard.
.............
And more prosaically even today, just watch how the Brits act like the Ulster problem is all to do with the warring tribes in Ireland, not with the British presence itself.
K. Mickey