Imperialism is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization by military force or other means ; even this modern day description does not emanate a positive concept created by civilised society, but it was. ... Another flaw in his tribes ethical beliefs is seen when they excuse him for beating his wife " Oknokwo was provoked to justifiable anger by his youngest wife Ojiugo" he "beat her very heavily" as his other wives pleaded with him to stop "but Oknokwo was not a man to stop beating somebody half way through". I found myself with even less regard fo...

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In a country that he considered too conservative, conformist, spießerhaft' and charged with latent violence' (Elsaesser, 1996: 25), he also deals with the issues of ageism and crossing social boundaries. ... And yet, in the next scene we meet Emmi's daughter, whose white, German husband is feigning illness in order to have time off work and is too lazy to raise himself out of his armchair to fetch another beer, preferring to order his wife to do this on pain of a beating should she refuse. ... Take, for example, the couple's honeymoon in a foreign country. ...

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