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From: "jamin" <ben2-AT-mail.microserve.net>
Subject: Re: FW 347
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:39:25 -0800


This only makes sense if we think of the creation of this empire as one
resulting from a nation setting forth with the foreknowledge that it would
face "poorly armed natives."  However, it wasn't a nation that built the
empire but small individuals with the fears common to them.  More to the
point these individuals did not desire to conquer simple challenges, they
wanted to be men of action and make names for themselves as any man of
action does.  I don't think it is true that England faced simple tribes
either.  I think this is a mistake that we make by assuming certain things.
A lack of technological sophistication combined with a seemingly
underdeveloped desire to wage our kind of war seems to equal simplicity in
our eyes.  There are plenty of non- Western leaders who would undermine this
assumption and who would have turned England back had not her representative
used diplomacy instead of force.
BenB.
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From: <Zhonu-AT-aol.com>
To: <nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: FW 347


> I think part of the answer is that the British Empire was acquired in 'fit
of
> forgetfulness' that is to say that there was no heroic conquest. Little
> battles usually against poorly armed natives required that Britain do
> something with what they got. Not out of pride of conquest but out of a
sense
> of white mans burden and the spread of, all things, Christianity.
>
> Chris
>
>
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