" It's the "oppression theory," D'Souza claims that helped those nations who were colonized by the West, and he makes sense when he points out that while British colonialism was bad for his grandfather in India, it was good for him. The British brought English language traditions to India, and that helped him; the West brought technology to India, and that is good, too. And the British built roads, railway systems, docks, irrigation, and more, and here in the U.S., "Jesse Jackson is vastly better off because his ancestors were enslaved than he would have been if that had never happened." Why? Jackson and "others like him" (that sounds like of racist or at least condescending) would be living in Somalia or Ethiopia or Nigeria....
Pretty strange idea, but he is right by saying colonialism brought "millions of nonwhite people into the orbit of Western freedom."
QUESTION #3: Why does the American idea entice foreign people? Is it because America represents "the ***** goddess of success"? Is it to get rich like the Americans that people around the world see on TV? Is it because even the poor live fairly well? And is it because you get to write "the script of your own life" (p. 83)? The answer is, people from other nations see a little bit (or a lot) of each of these things. This chapter is one of D'Souza's best.
QUESTION #4: If D'Souza is wrong, and America does owe reparations to African-Americans, then, as D'Souza said earlier in the book, Islam owes reparations to nations and cultures it enslaved, and so do the Chinese. And he says the Europeans are not guilty of
genocide against the
