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To: PCModem who wrote (34844)	8/13/1999 2:37:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 71178

Amazing how the colonial powers justified some of their actions: the British spoke with great pride of the educational systems they instituted, which were aimed solely at producing compliant local bureaucrats to serve the colonial governments, and the networks of railroads that were installed to facilitate the extraction of resources. Both are often described as advantages of colonialism. Some of the great transfers of wealth in the history of the world took place under colonial banners: the Spanish looting of the treasuries of the great South and Central American empires, for one; the British use of opium to loot China - possibly the most efficient dope-dealing operation in history - for another. All reported on the home front as the bearing of the white man's burden. Mark Twain wrote some fascinating, and generally forgotten, essays on the subject.