Question
Use the excerpts to answer the question.
Primary Account 1: Speech by Jules Ferry, prime minister of France, 1884
"Gentlemen, we must speak more loudly and more honestly! We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races....I repeat, that the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races.... In the history of earlier centuries these duties, gentlemen, have often been misunderstood, and certainly when the Spanish soldiers and explorers introduced slavery into Central America, they did not fulfill their duty as men of a higher race.... But in our time, I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with the sincerity of this superior civilizing duty."
Primary Account 2: Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," 1898
"Take up the White Man's burden-/Send forth the best ye breed- / Go bind your sons to exile / To serve your captives" need; / To wait in heavy harness / On fluttered folk and wild- / Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half-child."
Compare the two accounts from primary sources. Which statement best compares how European approaches to colonization in Asia and Africa were similar?
Both accounts state how European colonization sought to acquire natural resources.
Both accounts state how superior Asia and Africa were.
Both accounts state how inferior European nations were.
Both accounts state how European colonization sought to civilize the Indigenous people.
Primary Account 1: Speech by Jules Ferry, prime minister of France, 1884
"Gentlemen, we must speak more loudly and more honestly! We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races....I repeat, that the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races.... In the history of earlier centuries these duties, gentlemen, have often been misunderstood, and certainly when the Spanish soldiers and explorers introduced slavery into Central America, they did not fulfill their duty as men of a higher race.... But in our time, I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with the sincerity of this superior civilizing duty."
Primary Account 2: Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," 1898
"Take up the White Man's burden-/Send forth the best ye breed- / Go bind your sons to exile / To serve your captives" need; / To wait in heavy harness / On fluttered folk and wild- / Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half-child."
Compare the two accounts from primary sources. Which statement best compares how European approaches to colonization in Asia and Africa were similar?
Both accounts state how European colonization sought to acquire natural resources.
Both accounts state how superior Asia and Africa were.
Both accounts state how inferior European nations were.
Both accounts state how European colonization sought to civilize the Indigenous people.
Answers
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The statement that best compares how European approaches to colonization in Asia and Africa were similar is: **Both accounts state how European colonization sought to civilize the Indigenous people.**
Both Jules Ferry and Rudyard Kipling emphasize the idea of a "civilizing mission" as a justification for European colonization. Ferry explicitly states that superior races have a duty to civilize what he refers to as "inferior races," while Kipling refers to the responsibility of the colonizers to serve and uplift "half-devil and half-child" peoples. This common theme reflects the paternalistic attitudes held by many Europeans during the era of colonization.
Both Jules Ferry and Rudyard Kipling emphasize the idea of a "civilizing mission" as a justification for European colonization. Ferry explicitly states that superior races have a duty to civilize what he refers to as "inferior races," while Kipling refers to the responsibility of the colonizers to serve and uplift "half-devil and half-child" peoples. This common theme reflects the paternalistic attitudes held by many Europeans during the era of colonization.