By the end of the 19th century, free-trade European imperialism included much of Asia and Africa within a rapidly growing global mercantilist economy. Europeans entered these unexplored areas with the intention of dominating the indigenous society, which quickly alienated the two societies and formed new dual and segregated societies. Rudyard Kipling's “The White Man's Burden” and George Orwell's “Shooting the Elephant” outlined the social order and class rivalry between the British Empire and the natives. Gandhi's letter to Lord Irwin also supported this view, examining dual societies in the context of the British isolating the native society from the economic hegemony enjoyed by the British. Together, Kipling, Orwell and Gandhi provided a detailed account of British prejudice within the colonial dual society through the social and economic hegemony they held. Orwell's essay demonstrated British supremacy against the colonized as it revealed how insignificant their deaths were. Being a police superintendent in Burma, Orwell was called in when an otherwise tame elephant went on the rampage. In his search for the animal, he came across a dead Burmese, who was trampled by the elephant, and called it a "black Dravidian coolie". The Oxford Dictionary defined a coolie as “an offensive term for an unskilled native laborer in an Asiatic country.” At the end of the essay, Orwell tracked down the elephant and killed it. When discussion about the shooting arose, a young Englishman said he was wrong, justifying that even “an elephant was worth more than any damned Coringhee coolie.” However, Orwell stood by his actions, as he stated: “I was very glad that the coolie had been killed… it gave me a… medium enough… definitely, Kipling believed that if imperialism If nations as the British Empire had not taken over, without civilized conquerors utter chaos would have begun. White overlords continued to reign supreme as they expected colonial subjects to eagerly embrace violent and degrading imperialist desires. However, the quixotic English who they ventured into these unknown lands to civilize the natives remained internally divided George Orwell dehumanized a man as an alibi for his killing, but still considered the natives' attitudes reasonable. However, this shared mutual disgust fueled and necessitated a barrier between the two cultures This dualistic society painted a portrait of high tension and developed repercussions of calls for injustice and revolts that eventually expelled the British Empire from India and Africa and gave the nations self-domination...
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