Imperialism+Jigsaw+Projects+2B

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// S: Dad (half crying) this girl called Jiheon from India came to me today during school and said I am bad because I am a British. She called me cruel imperialist! D: Oh honey, don’t listen to her! She is too young and doesn’t know much. In fact, we are not bad! (Sujin/Dennis turn back) (Jiheon and Hojoon face front)

J: Dad! I went to school today and called Sujin a cruel imperialist, as you told me! (proudly) H: My daughter, you did good! That arrogant people deserves that! J: Daddy, but what did they do to our country? H: Oh daughter, the textbooks here in England never tells the truth about us. Well, it goes back to 1707, when Mughal dynasty collapsed, and India was in panic. You see daughter, the sly British saw the chance and snatched the power of India. They brought army, and killed the honorable defenders of our country, and nearly claimed our land as colony. J: Oh God! They killed our people and tried to get our land! I shall scorn her more! (Sujin/ Dennis face front, J/H turn back.) S: Dad, how come you never told me that? D:... umm.. Huh? what? Oh never mind that, that is just exaggerated story. Well. it is true that we attacked them, but it was in a good cause! We tried to stabilize India’s declining economy. We saved them from going in to chaos after their govn’t break apart! S: Oh! Really? They should thank us for that then! D: Yes daughter. In India, we gave them so much things! One example, we provided them with finely finished goods, like clothes, and we made the most of India’s natural resource, which they would have never known their potentials without us! S: Oh yea papa, I also heard that we weren’t interfering that much to India! We just “supported” the economy (like you know the quotation like like with fingers like like :) ) And we even named them “The Brightest Jewel in the crown!” How cool is that name?  D: Yes daughter! You got it (J/H turn face front, D/S turn back)  H: You really shouldn’t believe that. That is partial view of the truth. The truth is that they limited our economy, rather than helping. They set up restriction so that us people can’t stand as nation ourself. They never let us make our own products. If they were kind, why were they so eager to hide textile machines?  J: Yes papa! That is right. They are parasites to us. They came, and started to take our resources and materials without our consent! They just used us for their benefit!  H: Their limits and racist view even hurt our traditional ways of living. They tried to limit the cash crop sold by individual, and the villagers of poor towns were put to famine! Also, the British gave the soldiers cartridges made of beef and pork fat! DO you get it? Since our soldiers were mostly Hindus and Muslims, who don’t eat pork, they were INSULTED! J: Oh lord! These British people are so different from their gentle appearance! They are hypocrites! (D/S front, JH BACK) D: No more! they are driving me nuts! I can’t stand this anymore. I have the most strongest point. India’s economy became valuable due to Britain’s establishment of railroad network. We built them the World’s third largest railroad for them! WIthout us, they can’t even move their products across their own land! Imagine that my daughter, how silly is that! Sujin: Hahahah that is just too funny daddy! How can they not be able to move across their own land! We made their standard of living much higher, as well as we gave them bases for their future! We gave them unity as a country. How kind of us! D: It is not over yet! Telephones, telegraphs lines, dams, bridges, and irrigation canals, public health service, schools, colleges, and we even went there, and local warfare between their own people! S: SILLY! WE MADE THEM HUMAN! HOW CAN THEY NOT HAVE TELEPHONES AND EVEN SCHOOLS? D: Think about it daughter, we wouldn’t have known about INDIA if we never help them grow. We would have thought them as savages! S: True daddy! (DS back JH front) J: Dad. IT seems very obvious that they helped us. H: Do you think my daughter? Oh ancestors! The hopes of our new generations are perverted by British beliefs! Save us! J: That I didn’t mean that! Of course I know how bad it was! The material things that show up in the surface is not all. I know that our people got damages, and I know that they felt bad. People just don’t get how cruel it was because they never experienced it. Now I can know why Soho, the Korean boy, was always angry at Japanese Brian, the Japanese boy! It is deep in his mind. He knows. H: What a sentiment! I guess I don’t need to stress it no more. Now let me tell you how brave our great great great grandpas and grandmas were! The Indian soldiers, one day, 90 soldiers refused to follow order. They rebelled, won victory themselves, and went to Delhi, and motivated others. They captured the city of Delhi. Some great thinkers demanded for government representation. These great people brought us freedom and nation of our own. J: Wow dad! I never knew about these people! (JH back, DS front) D: You never heard it because they are not THAT GREAT! YOU SEE? THEY ARE JUST BUNCH OF PEOPLE REBELLING AGAINST THE GREAT BRITAIN! S: DAD, can we stop shouting? I think the both sides are true. I believe that help them in a sort of insulting way, and I also believe that they were not feeling right. D: But daughter.. S: Its ok dad! I still love my country! D: Oh daughter! //