Going Solo Roald Dahl Sparknotes

Going Solo, Roald Dahl's memoir of his work in East Africa and his service in the RAF, covers the buildup to World War II and his involvement in it. In the book, mention is made of British Immigration. British Immigration plays a large role in the memoir as it talks about how the British were sent to Africa to civilize the people there. Dahl says about British immigration that " [I]n the 1930s the British empire was still very much the British, and the men and women who kept it going were a race of people that most of you have never encountered and now you never will". In fact, British immigration is important because as it turns out, a lot of the British Immigrants couldn't even do civilize the people like they were supposed to.

The British are immigrated to places like Africa to "Civilize" the people there. As it states in BBC," British people thought that they were doing the world a favor by taking the British, government and Christianity to the rest of the world, ending slavery and barbaric traditions, bringing 'civilization' and an international 'Pax Britannica', or 'British peace'." This shows that the British thought their way if living was the best was of living, so they tried to force everyone else in their territory to act like the British. To finish off, they had thought they were the best and wanted everyone to follow their example.
To prove this, in the book it states," They cultivate bizarre habits that would never be tolerated back home, whereas in far-away Africa or in Ceylon or in India or in the Federated Malay states that could do as they liked." Showing that instead of trying to make other people act like the British the British started to act like the others. They cultivated the habits of Africa's culture. To conclude, Britain's plan to make everyone like them had gone the opposite of what it was supposed