Map & Question

Map

When I was creating the map, certain questions popped in my head. For one thing, I did not know that Netherlands and the Dutch were the same. I also wondered how the land was split up. They were random plots of land which would go with one nation when the land in the territory was administered by a completely different nation. What made the leaders distribute their lands the way that it is? What happened to natives of those particular lands? How did the larger powers deal with the widespread population?

White Man's Burden Reading

Compare and contrast the sorts of adjectives Kipling uses to describe native peoples as opposed to Europeans; how does his very language usage convey his sense of white superiority?

Kipling describes native people very negatively versus his description of white men to establish that they(the Europeans) are superior to the natives. Kipling refers to the natives as "half-devil", and therefore not civilized. He even tries to say that the natives should let go of their tradition and adopt European tradition. Kipling believe that, if there was imperial rule in the Philippines the natives would not suffer anymore as the white men would "save them"(sounds great!; he also believed that imperialism was superior than the govt. of the natives). Kipling also notes that the way Europeans do things is the "right way" and that they are very ahead of the game; they are superior to the natives. Overall Kipling makes a not so valid point about how the Europeans are superior and the natives are not(and so on..and so forth...).