European Populations' Opinions on Immediate Colonization of Africa

The intentions of European countries, when rapidly colonising Africa, were political and economic, for the most part, but were presented as based prominently on morality. Initially, Europe believed that power over African territories would provide an increase in political power and economic status. Such beliefs were semi-true at first, but as time passed, colonial power over Africa became the focal point of European leaders' lives.

Opinions on colonising Africa varied vastly throughout European populations; there weren't merely two groups agreeing or disagreeing, but instead, various points of view on the matter. Some people looked at colonising Africa as a step towards European progression, while others found it morally unsound. Others, still finding the imperialist takeovers wrong, had reasons aside from moral value; if the government focused on Africa, their attention was taken away from their own country and its inhabitants. European families would be ignored, when they should be the center of their countries' attention when referring to economy and politics.

To this day, their is a strong diversity within perspectives on how our government goes about fixing problems. The first attack on Iraq, for example (Duncan 12/4/08), elicited many different view points; some of our population saw it as the right way to clearly convey a message to the Iraqi population, when others believed that the attack would only initiate more conflict and provoke chaos, which, in turn, was completely true. History has a pattern; no matter what time period or era, leaders think in a similar manner and use parallel tactics. Therefore, I would believe that the way the population thinks on such matters would not have changed too incredibly.