Attitude toward European Imperialism

Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness says "With four friends it will be opened with dinner at dusk, they are moored at the entrance of the River Thames and are waiting for the turn of the tide" (Knowles and Moore 173). Marlow talks about his personal experience in Congo. As a crew member of a steamship, he departed from Europe to Africa where he was one of the "Earth of the Earth" (Conrad 3). His first job was to save the company's best agent with illness and illness in Kurtz, Africa.

In 30 years of travel and Christian missionary work in the South, Central and Eastern Africa, there was little risk before Europe, but Livingston is more concerned with Western attitude towards Africa than others before him It affects. His discovery - geography, technology, medicine and society - provides a complex knowledge system that is still being explored. Despite his paternalism and Victorian prejudice, Livingstone believes in the ability of Africans to enter the modern world from the bottom of my heart. In this sense, he is not only a pioneer of European imperialism in Africa, but also a pioneer of African nationalism.

Anti-imperialists in the early twentieth century announced a global paradigm shift to imperialism after World War II. Thirty years after the end of the war, the European empire abandoned the new international spirit developed on their behalf for their colonies and imperialism, regardless of whether they were pleased or not. In fact, the word "imperialism" is the word of condemnation. Both Britain and France were devalued by this change as the power of the great empire of this era. In December 2012, French President François Orlando visited the former Algerian colony and said, "132 years ago, Algeria suffered from a cruel and unfair system, colonized, acknowledging the pain caused by it "British Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for the 1919 Amritsar massacre during his visit to India in February 2013 and the British military killed 379 unarmed people. Do not forget what happened here. "

International pressure since 1945 is the fundamental cause of colonization release in France and the UK. During the Second World War, Europe's colonial countries emphasized the contradiction between the colonial empire and anti-fascism, so we had to rethink our attitude towards imperialism. Darwin supported this view, "The fight against Hitler's ideological struggle has made pre-war colonialism too early". We support. The colonial empire is immoral