Burmese Days: A Powerful Exploration of Colonialism and Identity from George Orwell

by George Orwell

We can’t help doing so. In fact, before we’ve finished we’ll have wrecked the whole Burmese national culture. But we’re not civilizing them, we’re only rubbing our dirt on to them.

interesting

It is a disagreeable thing when one’s close friend is not one’s social equal; but it is a thing native to the very air of India.

so true

We always talk of them as though they’d sprung up from the ground like mushrooms, with all their faults ready-made. But when all’s said and done, we’re responsible for their existence.’