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The Influence Of European Imperialism

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The Non-Western World’s identity was hurting due to the European’s imperialistic power and because the intruders were arrogant. The initial response of the African and Asian people was to try to drive them out. However, anti-foreign reactions were put down fiercely by the Europeans’ superior technology. Therefore, conquered people worked to preserve their own culture from westernization, while Ismail of Egypt felt that the West was superior and that Egyptians should reform. Asians and Africans were used to doing what they were told to do, but opponents of imperialism felt that they were being robbed of their dignity by their outside rulers. Civil liberty and political self-determination were marks of the Western world for those opposed foreign rule. India was the jewel in Britain’s Imperialist crown; The British East India Company conquered the last independent Indian state in 1848, so British rule was complete. By 1858, India was ruled by the British Parliament and administered by a small all-white civil service. In 1900, there were less than three thousand officials to rule a country of over 300 million. The Brits introduced a secondary English-speaking education system in India. Irrigation projects for agriculture, the third-largest railroad network, and tea plantations were developed. European domination of India led to a rise in Indian nationalism because everyone knew that no matter how advanced Indian became, he’d never be equal to a white man; the best jobs, hotels,

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