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A 3 page essay that discusses, first, European imperialism and then relates this topic to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. No other sources cited.
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onset of European imperialism, the conquerors invented rationalizations that involved supposed benefits for the conquered, such as knowledge of Christianity. As the Industrial Revolution progressed, the so-called benefits of European
domination included the technological wonders for which the Victorians were so proud, that is, railways, communication systems, and improvement in medical care. In return for this technology being introduced into
their country, which primarily benefitted the colonizers, the Europeans exploited the colonized nations natural resources and oppressed its people, who were viewed as inferior and need of the superior caliber
of white leadership. This ethnocentric attitude ran head on against equally ethnocentric attitudes among native populations, which is a point well-illustrated by Chinua Achebes novel Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo,
a powerful leader of the Igbo tribe, is very much like the British conquerors of Nigeria in that he also is uncritical of his culture and accepts its dictums
without consideration for what his actions mean morally or their effect on others. Therefore, when the tribal shaman demands the sacrifice of his step-son Ikemefuna, he accepts this pronouncement as
morally just and he even participates in the murder of the boy who has come to love him as his father. In response to criticism, Okonkwo says that that the
"earth cannot punish me for obeying her messenger (i.e., the shaman)-A childs fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts in its palm" (Achebe
47). As this statement suggests, Okonkwo accepts his cultural practices without questioning any of its accepted actions or practices, such as a mandate for constant intertribal warfare, acceptance of
human sacrifice, or leaving twin babies to die in the bush. He accepts his culture wholeheartedly as the only way in which reality can be viewed just as the British
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