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A black and white hand-drawn political cartoon showing two nearly identical violent scenes. On the left is a Chinese man wielding a sword from his raised right arm while squatting over a European man lying on the ground. This scene is captioned “barbarie”. On the right the roles are reversed and is captioned “civilisation”.

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A black and white hand-drawn political cartoon showing two nearly identical violent scenes. On the left is a Chinese man wielding a sword from his raised right arm while squatting over a European man lying on the ground. This scene is captioned “barbarie”. On the right the roles are reversed and is captioned “civilisation”.
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Eugene Alvin Villar (seav@en.osm.town)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 08:54:24 JST Eugene Alvin Villar

Where’s the lie?
This is a political drawing by Hermann-Paul published in 1899 in Le Cri de Paris, a French magazine, and was created as a commentary on the Boxer Rebellion.
#politics #PoliticalCartoons #colonialism

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