Question

how were both the British and the colonists portrayed? Did you find it had a bias?

Answer 1

History is written in the eyes of the winner and in colonial time it was the cunning and the one who had advanced weapons were considered as the winners. Almost all the indigenous cultures who were also advanced civilizations were destroyed with the cunningness of the colonists divide and rule policy. Cruelty, violence, cunningness etc. were considered as virtues by the colonists to rob the people in different lands.

It was resource scarcity that led the Europeans to move around the globe for new resources and land for survival but what they did to people who took them in their land only for trade was real betrayal. They not only robbed the resources but also enslaved the people because they were nice to them, because they were already civilized and because they were content and happy with the way they lived.

Instead of showing all these characteristics, the Europeans who colonized distant lands were regarded as heroes and brave warriors. Even today, the developed countries try to push their individualistic and materialistic cultures on the developing countries that are collective in nature. They systematically destroyed the educational system in those countries where they ruled thus killing the future of the country itself.

History should also be written in the eyes of the oppressed and the defeated and only then we will get the full picture of what really happened. In American history, the treatment of African and Indian Americans in the past is in nowhere matches today’s standards. Whatever the White did those days are cruel, violent and barbaric actions if it were done today.

I definitely think that the way the British and other colonialists were presented has a bias.