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Natives Are Uncivilized

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad made me think about how people go and “explore” other countries and say the natives are uncivilized just because they are not dress like people in modern countries, speak a dialect, run naked, wear different clothings, and many other things that western society sees like uncivilized. Every country or place has different cultures and the “explores” should not go and educate or make the group of people become “civilized”. For example the book talks about how the black people were treated, the natives the actual one that had more rights to the land, they were enslaved by the European “explorers”. The benefit was for the Europeans and not the actually people that live in Africa. This reminded me of how the Europeans

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