The White Man´s Burden
The poem of Joseph Rudyard Kipling shows the idea that the ´white man´ was carrying out a mission to take light to those ´dark places´ where the natives, or indians, or aborigines, or whatever lived. A bit like what we were told about the Spanish coming over to colonise and ´evangelise´ our local communities.
The imperialistic idea of the white mas's burden
The advertisement show us how soap and cleanliness is used as a metaphor for colonization, suggesting that the colonized were unclean and needed to be cleaned or enlightened.
Also try to teach the virtues of cleanliness taking in consideration the soup as a factor of light that illuminate the dark corners of the earth.
The significance of English in Lomas de Zamora
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