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Certainly empires are centralistic and therefore do not lose the superficial character of their origins, but in a more profound sense, the empire is a combination of idea and interest in which the mother country becomes more and more a symbol, an ideal, less and less home. The traditional Irish taunt to the British soldier "I pity you, you have no homeland" reflects this wisdom. Empires are constantly straining to ensure unity and identity against the natural geographical factors which pull towards separation. Many imperialists were poor patriots and vice versa. Kipling found Britain "cramped".

Empires abolish trade barriers and increase mobility. with imperial consolidation. A sure sign of imperial ambition can be heard in the cry against tariff barriers. An empire cannot tolerate them, a job function email list nation cannot long survive without them. All empires tend towards human homogeneity and specifically misegenation. The busy cities and especially the ports become ethnic melting pots. It is no surprise that the apologists of imperial policies are often promoters of racial integration. Sir Charles Brooke, Governor of.


Sarawak, believed that half-castes were the ideal type for the climate of South East Asia, people who would combine administrative skill with native tolerance and endurance of the climate. Empires preach a new man. The new man will be more efficient, at a "higher" more civilized level than his pre-imperial predecessor. Albukerque's policy in Goa was to encourage racially mixed marriages among Christians. Spanish policy was much the same in the New World (so long as the couples were Roman Catholics). In South Africa it was the Boer nationalists who developed a system of racial Apartheid opposed to the pragmatism of colour blind British imperialism, which also introduced Chinese and Indians to Africa.