Monday, February 11, 2008

Re: Empire Gone Wrong

The British Empire had a goal. They wanted to globalize Britian rule. The movie doesn't come right out and say it, hidden inside the message it is clear. It is well known that by 1921 the British Empire held "control" over a population of about 458 million people, approximately one-quarter of the world's population at the time. The people who were sent to colonize and reform in other parts of the world were more or less bull headed. They were there for economical growth and because power is a well known ambition for men. Britian didn't worry too much about the culture they were imposing upon, they were there because they thought that Britian was the greatest place on earth and it was the duty and job of those who were bless to be in this society to gel the rest of the world into a British mold. It is amazing to think of the culture and traditions that have been lost to the tides of empires. The world will never know.

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