His influence in Africa lead to the British annexations of Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia. His hope was the total domination of the English race, "He has done more than any single contemporary to place before the imagination of his countrymen a clear conception of the Imperial destinies of our race," (Matthew). Rhodes’ viewpoint on the british was one of prestige and dominance. He thought of them as the supreme race. As stated in the Life and times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes, “you have no disease which as far as you know is certain to kill you, and you are an Englishman. Why! You have drawn two of the greatest prizes in the lottery of life!” (Michel, …show more content…
Having a corrupt background, the beginning of the Pears Soap company began with Toung Taloung. Toung Taloung, an aged elephant covered in dust, arrived in London for a short visit in the London Zoological gardens. As the europeans saw that Toung contained white hues on his body, they believed a scrubbing would allow the elephant to be more white, the color it ought to be, (Amato). Cleansing this elephant of its dark-ashy skin to become lighter tint highlighted the significance of being white in order to have a sense of power. Sarah Amato