The Four Feathers Movienight

“God has endowed the British race with a worldwide empire that
they may execute His sovereign purpose in the world. The victories you will have over the heathens are the victories of the nobler soul in man.”
1. Basically, the priest/general is explaining what Kipling means in his poem "White Man's Burden". The British believe that it is what god wants them to do and that is why they shall execute what he is asking for. Otherwise, what they are doing would be against god's will. I think this quote was valid at that time, because all of these world powers were very religious and I think that everything they did was justified by their vision of god.

“I sometimes wonder what a godforsaken desert in the middle of nowhere
has to do with Her Majesty the queen.”
2. Harry is questioning the idea of colonization because first, he doesn't want to get sent off to war, but also because he believes that the army could do better somewhere else. Harry is looking at this different because he has just gotten engaged to Kate Hudson, and really doesn't want to fight. This causes him to quit the Miitary.

"Avoid drinking local water and spirits "avoid local barrooms and
brothels and, above all, remember, you're a Christian soldier."
3. This handout the soldier is reading makes Africa seem like a place where they poisoned your water, and nobody was to be trusted. In actuality, Harry made friends with Abu, and he did not poison his water. Once again, this quote attempts to explain how the soldiers are soldiers of Christ rather than the queen.

“They're like children. They have no concept of gratitude or loyalty.
That's something you British don't understand. You come here, trying to civilize them with your Christian values.”
4. This quote makes the Africans seem very primitive and stupid, however as seen later in the movie, they are very smart and formulate strategic plans. It also tells Harry that these people do not want to change their religion, and their god doesn't force them to do anything.

“You English walk too proudly on the earth.”
5. Abu means that all Englishmen walk as if they were Christ themselves, and does not believe that these men can get away with murder. I think that this statement is stereotypical, and all Africans looked at all English this way. I don't think Abu agrees with the British, nor does he agree with the Radical Africans either.

Critical Thinking
Well, one reason the boy didn't drop his gun was because he couldn't speak English!!!!!!!! Wow what an idiot, however I would have shot the kid too if he was reloading his gun right in front of me. I believe that Jack should have felt remorse for killing the boy, but he did the right thing for his own self preservation. I think the people threw rocks at Jack because to them it seemed like Jack was the bad guy, while through the British lens, the sniper kid was the bad guy. I think this language barrier was very important in the Scramble for Africa.

Motives for British Imperialism

1. Slavery was in decline because it was a goal of foreign policy because slavery was not economically sound. Many people believed in philanthropy to help new people since slavery had been abolished.
2. Halstead disregards ideology and also in the introduction paragraph he rules out national security as well. This is because national security was not high up in the foreign policy. And ideology was removed to simplify imperialism.
3. Halstead believed that imperialism was a method of foreign policy, while others believed it had to do with money, trade, national security, monarchy, and religion.
4. Halstead finalizes that he believes that imperialism was something that had to be done under new foreign policies, and had to do with nothing else.

White Man's Burden

1. Kipling means that it is the Europeans job to take care of these different primitive peoples and it is what god would want them to do.
2. Kipling justifies imperialism by stating that it is needed to spread freedom and it is the word of god.
3. Many people were into this idea because they were "helping out" these primitive people who couldn't fend for themselves.
4. Religion was used over justification for money and all that stuff because it was something that everybody at the time believed in and it detoured the people away from the money.