Not for the first time, I... «Death in the East»
ElenaOO15 апреля 2021Not for the first time, I was forced to contemplate the nature of my compatriots. We liked to think of ourselves as a noble race, the architects of the greatest empire the world had ever known, but our behaviour was still rooted in the narrow-minded mentality of that wet little island whence we came. The truth was we wasted an inordinate amount of time and energy on our petty hierarchies and hypocrisies. We were moved to outrage at the thought that a man with a different shade of skin might have the temerity to eat in the same room as us, all the while blithely dismissing the fact that this was his country and we were the foreigners in it.
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