CO129-595-1 Anti-British feeling in China- memorandum by J V Braga 15-2-1946 - 15-8-1946 — Page 31

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'native peoples. Is it not possible that class distinctions which

have made one section of people in Zugland look down upon another

may have accentuated any natural tendency of British in the Colonies

to look down upon 'nativo' peoples? But British people themselves

are better able than I to analyse this nзygut and judge for them-

selves how far the averaging out of classes in England will operate

to remove from the 'white man' the false concepts of racial super-

iority.

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In my opinion, almost every case of British incivility

to the Chinese has been actuated by a desire, conscious or uncon-

8clous, to impose a sense of racial superiority to the Chinese.

I will conclude this section with the following comment,

made by a prominent Chinese official: "Tea-cup friendships with

British people lie not what we Chinese want. To do not crave

European society be sure we can be happy in our own. But we do

want, and we have a right to clain, as an ensential to amicable

relations with Britain and the British people, common courtesy

from the Britisil in their averyday dealings wit. us."

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