Posted by Mike Dennis on March 25, 2002 at 17:27:20 from 195.92.168.168:
In Reply to: Re: Colonialism in S&As posted by Robert Dilley on March 25, 2002 at 16:46:48:
By the 'N word'Robert I presume you mean 'natives', but I don't think this would be regarded as racist in the way that AR used it. In fact he was perhaps ahead of his time in acknowledging that there were people already in places for the explorers to meet - rather than the suspect view that 'Columbus discovred America': for the natives already there what was there to discover?
As to colonialism in AR - he was writing at a time when this was the norm in Britain, and the kind of children he was writing about (in his central characters - though there is much to debate about class differences in CC and BS) would have been from reasonably well off families who could afford to send their children away to school and holidays while they tended the Empire.
I suppose the real question is - does AR put this view forward or is he just reflecting the world he lived in.
And this is all getting to ananlytical - I think I'll just go back to reading WH and hoping for snow. Another thought - why do weather forecasters see snow as a bad thing?