Today I saw Slumdog Millionaire, and it was similar to HoD. In the early section of the movie, in the slums, the children are frequently beaten by... well, anyone, simply because they are slum children. In fact, some Hindus run in to the slum, beating anyone they can with sticks and burning houses(if you can call it that) hecause they dislike the Muslims.
In HoD, the Company's agents comandeer the workforce of the natives, simply because they didn't understand them and thought that they were justified in forcing labor from the locals.
Here in Northbrook, it gets easy to fall into the unconscious belief that this kind of discrimination and poverty doesn't affect us, but seing the same kind of racial violence in a modern setting helped me 'feel' the other, less fortunate souls in the Heart of Darkness
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