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    The document discusses the negative impacts of Western colonialism on Eastern nations. It argues that while the West justified colonial rule by claiming to civilize and educate local populations, their primary motives were actually to exploit resources and gain wealth and power. It estimates that approximately $45 trillion was looted from India by British colonizers. Overall, the document asserts that Western colonial discourse suppressed Eastern nations and had more harmful effects, such as loss of glory, wealth, resources and even existence, than beneficial impacts.

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    In this week our discussion mainly revolves around Contact between East and West and amongst the

    ideas, I am highlighting ‘the cost of Western Discourse’ in this article. After the dark ages and towards
    the Middle Ages, European started exploring the world with the progressing civilization, knowledge and
    power in their hand (mainly since Protestant reformation). Like many previously great powers, the
    Europeans found the new lands less developed than themselves. And from here the famous stories of
    colonization by west began. The West justify their colonial rule in the name of spreading education,
    civilizing humans and make them equal human beings with them. Although the claim is true up to some
    extent but I think their primary focus was to glom the resources, making them wealthier. We can
    understand through the differences from what the teacher behaves to its students and an executioner
    do with the people. In my opinion, the behavior of West was closer to that of executioner. If we analyze
    the situation that was in India, the motive of East India Company apparently was trade but their true
    motive was revealed at the end on gaining whole India with power. From the research, approximately
    forty-five trillion dollars were looted by English men from India (Pandey, 2022). Since the starting of
    modernization wave, the West had suppressed the East in various forms, with justifying their cruel
    practices. If I am to say that discourse of West left more horrible effects on Rest than good so that’s not
    false. The colonized nations have lost their glory, wealth, resources and in some area their existence!
    Following line of Stuart Hall will forfeit my claim. “ …it is clear their discourse was molded and
    influenced by the play of motives and interests across their language”. (Hall, 1996).

    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    Pandey, P., 2022. How Britain Looted $45 Trillion From India. [online] Medium. Available at:
    <https://historyofyesterday.com/how-britain-looted-45-trillion-from-india-
    2e923dfb2efb#:~:text=Patnaik%20concluded%20that%20Britain%20plundered,GDP%20of
    %20Britain%20and%20India.> [Accessed 30 January 2022].

    “Stuart Hall, ‘the West and the Rest: Discourse and Power,’ 1996 - Videri.” Wikidot.com, 2010,

    videri.wikidot.com/hallwest. Accessed 2 Aug. 2019.

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