OK, white man's burden is maybe bad poem. But I am white woman, not man 😆. Kipling was British and he was member of the ruling people in India. So maybe he defended his position. But it is responsibility of British to give better security and economic welfare to India as India was their colony and in their custody. If British did not do so, then they were wrong. But many Indians love to talk more in English and love everything Western. This always makes me feel they actually find more good than bad with the English.
Poles on the other hand are very opposite. It is rare for Polish people to speak Russian, Turkish or even English, unless we studied some foreign languages. We do trade easily, and we also have our own music bands. Overall picture is that we are developing with consistency on our own history, with no conquerors influence 😊. Polish dresses, professional or casual, are all very Polish and not English.
I felt Gandhi tried same for India, and give it its own unique identity. But seem to me that he is not that successful in India, other than the fact that it gave India independence. There are theories that India could never get independence through violence due to superior British military. The British had Indian troops and Indian spies for their empire. They used money too from India. Many things that made India a colony are rare in the world. Do you know that India was the only developed civilization which became a colony for British, rest were from Africa and new lands they discovered.
USA is a headache to Poland too . Many demonstrations happen in Warsaw and Cracow. They want to build a missile defense shied in Poland to threaten Russia. This is very dangerous for Poland as Russia warns that if it wishes it can attack Poland to destroy the defense shield 😕. But USA dont want to listen. We are in mess for that. But this is how global politics is and we all need to survive in it.
Someone mentioned about Pakistan and Bangladesh being different to India. Is it something you belief? You all are same people and now divided. Gandhi wanted to prevent this. Very sad episode. Same with North and South Korea. Why you became to weak to your colonizers? Other countries were colonized too, but all of them fought to protect their identity.
As for Jungle book, its just a book. I wish my son to know more of his father's land just as he will obviously know of his mother's land. We live in Poland, so he will grow up here mostly. He will visit his grandparents in India. I hope he will speak Hindi too 😊. He is very small now, 5+ months 😊
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