Empire, Racism and Colonisation

Cards (4)

  • Firoza: "It's in their blood. I think it's different to ours - cold."
    Lady Sarah: " I understand that Indian blood is thinner than English. You must feel the cold more than we do."

    There is a lack of understanding on both sides of the Empire. Yet the British is due to their ignorance, and the Indian due to their mistreatment by the colonisers.
  • "Might be all dressed up like a fancy peacock but he is still a lackee to the white man." -Hari

    No matter how educated or wealthy you were, British people would have always seen non-white people as less.
  • "Some of these English employers, morals of a ten-headed demon." - Firoza
    Goes against the myth of bringing civilisation
  • "They like to look down at us from a great height. Sometimes they can't even see us." -Hari
    British people looked down upon non-white people as less than or even subhuman.