Chapter 20- Colonial Encounters

In the beginning of this chapter Strayer begins with a short story of his experience in Kenya along with his friends. As years passed by while he was gathering information for Ph.D. research about the British missionaries, he saw a letter that argued about the teachings of English to the Africans.The reasons given in that letter were "the danger in which such a course would place our white women and girls" and "the danger of organizing against the government and Europeans". Here we are able to see that there is this fear that the natives will go against the government and they imply that there is a need to protect white women, there is still an existence of racial boundaries by the Africans. Because of this issue there was an intense colonial concern to maintain distance and difference between the whites and blacks.
The chapter focuses on the two waves of colonialism and it's consequences from it. The first wave took place in the Americas and its perpetrators were England, France, Spain, and Portugal. The first wave caused a major and permanent demographic change especially because racial blends of people were taken place in the Americas. Most of these peoples' intentions were to live in the Americas, they would take their women and families. The second wave took place in Africa and Asia and their perpetrators were Germany, Japan, Belgium, and England. The second wave didn't cause much of a demographic change. The people isolated racially and worked with local authorities. These people weren't settlers like the ones who stayed in the Americas.