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ktbchn 's review for:
Burmese Days
by George Orwell
this was frankly exhausting to read, set in what feels like mideaval times but was actually really not long ago - through the eyes of a racist white man settling into burma as his actual 'home'. through the book you really feel that he is making progress with seeing the burmese and indian people as humans and not just second rate animals, and that is the most exhausting part. with each revelation he seems to maybe have, in typical orwellian style the progression goes from bleak to bleaker.
this is uncomfortable to read, important to ingest and frankly ridiculously relevant.
we are all racist. it's in our DNA, we were born inside a racist society (western civilisation - our grandparents and ancestors probably shed blood and owned slaves). squirming at some literature that paints us at our worst is V I T A L
this is uncomfortable to read, important to ingest and frankly ridiculously relevant.
we are all racist. it's in our DNA, we were born inside a racist society (western civilisation - our grandparents and ancestors probably shed blood and owned slaves). squirming at some literature that paints us at our worst is V I T A L