The Video
When I first read the title of the video, I assumed that it would be talking about Asia. Instead, it went on about how people are stereotyped in the Middle East. Some of these stereotypes include how we view their culture and people in the Middle East. Even scholars in recent centuries still use images that were from prior centuries, as if they never developed into anything greater. Some of these images show people using camels or show sensual women as servants instead of as equals. People get prejudices from hearsay and from their own society instead of making inferences themselves. Many people make decisions about these people without ever traveling there. As Edward Said said, people have been stereotyping people for as long as we can remember.


The Poem
When first reading this poem, it appeared to me that the Filipinos have to take the white burden onto their shoulders. I think it is asking them to give up the best of their people to go work for the white man. The phrase "To seek another's profit, And work another's gain," implies that they want the profit, are working for the white man to receive no gain of their own, while the white man flourishes. After I am not really sure what it means. But I think it is talking about how they want the Filipinos to get rid of the weight we carry for the things we have done that are immoral. It also talks about war and how in order to gain peace we must fight for the peace we want.


Discourse on Colonialism
When countries try to colonize other areas they turn into savages. They will try to force the people who they believe are acting like "savages" and "animal like" only to become that themselves. People try to force religion, laws, taxes, culture, ways of life, etc. on one another it ends up proving that there idea of colonizing these people is not for the better of the people they are trying to change but for the good of their own country. They in turn get resources such as crops, cotton, cacao, etc. but we have lost a vast majority of creativity and ideas from colonization, such as the Mayan and Incas. Also the country who is colonizing the area has the decision on whether or not to allow the country to grow and become more technologically, medically, etc. advanced like the rest of the world. They can hold them back or let them accelerate. So it is basically just a power that they Europeans hold over them and can control other countries with.