Colonial Encounters in Asia and Africa

This reading was extremely interesting because at the time England was in power. In our current time the United States of America is in power. In page 882 there is a picture of England as an octopus reaching out to the other countries and coming into control of other countries. In page 883 the British have pictures of all the races. They first have a monkey then two African males, Native Americans, Asian, and finally White males. All the pictures exempt for the the white male look like savages the white male looks intelligent and civilized while the rest look horrible. I also cannot believe that Asia was under European power why did they not fight the Europeans. Even the United States at the time had a territory because of the Spanish American war. Japan was also coming into power they toke over Korea and Taiwan. India was a territory of Great Britain and so was Burma. This is why people from third world countries do not like the Europeans and today the whole world hates Americans. Africa had the worst deal in this chapter because they colonized by all these other countries, but they still have countries today that are starving.