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Decolonization of the British Empire

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after colonization has taken place, the society that climbs from the ashes is never purely native again, but rather a hybrid (as symbolized by Songs transformation). In the end, the  dark overtones that pervade this portrayal serve a greater good by letting in more light, with the hopes that colonization and stereotyping might end. And end it did for the  British, as one by one they released their stranglehold on a great deal of the worlds territories, and finally the sun did set on her holdings. Why did this happen  and what precipitated the decolonization? Actually, Hwangs play illustrates this point quite well, too. In fact, Gallimard, the main British protagonist, is the epitome of the colonizing nation. He is  insulting and ignorant of the foreign countrys customs and he has no desire to learn, either. Learning would only lead to understanding and thus make colonization more difficult. Stereotyping and  rationalization are the colonizers main tools. The colonizing nation doesnt care to know the people they are dominating, nor do they care. Most colonization takes place because the invading  nation states that they do so in the foreign countrys best interests. This is a thinly drawn subterfuge, it can be said, however, because most conquered territories never are as  well off as the invading country. This can be said of both India and Africa as recently as the 1940s and 1950s. The school of thought of the day believed  that imperialism was necessary to preserve the existing social order in the more developed countries. That it was necessary to secure trade, markets, to maintain employment and capital exports, and  to channel the energies and social conflicts of the metropolitan populations into foreign countries. There was a very strong ideological and racial assumption of European superiority within this philosophy. World