Examples Of Imperialism In Things Fall Apart

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Imperialism is when one country takes over another and tries to take recourses. Some of these reasons. In Things Fall Apart the Europeans start building a church in Umuofia. They were building a church to try to teach them Christianity. Secondly in Things Fall Apart they were trying to civilize them by teaching them the white ways and how to communicate with them. The last reason is from White Man’s Burden and it is when whites teach non whites how to learn their ways and be with them. White Man’s Burden and Things Fall Apart discuss imperialism in different ways such as religion, education and profit.
Religion has to do with Imperialism because it is a way one group can take over another and take recourses. “We have now built a church,”