Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Empire of Good Intentions

The Empire of Good Intentions has opened my eyes to the reality of what an empire really is. It showed me that the British Empire between 1830 and 1925 was corrupt and irresponsible. The British assumed that they were doing good, going into struggling colonies building them up and giving them stable economics, government, and defense. In reality, they were using these colonies as a resource for money and power. They were milking these territories of their goods and profiting from them. By doing this they created problems that ran deep within the native peoples. Native Indians were starving while the aristocrats of the empire were feasting. In India the British neglected the native Indians causing them to rebel and speak out against the turmoil that was the British Empire. This film has shown me that an empire is not always what it seems. It has shown me the true corruption that exists when an empire is formed.

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