HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Clean Hands, White Supremacy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
4 Nov 2016
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Decolonization: the dynamics of decolonization, bankrupt europe. 19th century everyone assumed britain was wealthy because of their empire. 1914-1945 empires either stay static or decline. After wwi, britain was the biggest creditor. By 1918, britain was the largest debtor, creditor title moved to the us. France fought and fought hard for their empires. People among the colonized (algeria) say the whole rational of empire is false. Asked to treat a french soldier in the battle of algiers who had. Ptsd, because he was torturing algerian rebels to interrogate them, Wrote a book, about the decolonization of the algerian mind. In two way you can disprove the idea that the french are morally superior to anyone. Look at the second ww, they were targeting other groups. No one comes out of second ww with clean hands, so where is your moral right to tell people how to act. Look at french algerian population and how they are treated.
