The Arrogance of Power

• Main Author: Fulbright, J. William
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Arkansas Libraries 1966
• Subjects: International Relations; Foreign Policy; Arrogance of Power; International Cooperation; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Fulbright/id/550

-19- to behave like Mark Twain's "innocents abroad," who reported as follows on their travels in Europe: "The peoples of those foreign countries are very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes that we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. . In Paris, they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making these idiots understand their own language." We all, as Dr. Chisholm explains, enjoy telling people how they should behave, and the bigger and stronger and richer we are, the more we feel suited to the task, the more indeed we consider it our duty. Dr. Chisholm relates the story of an eminent cleric who had been proselyting the Eskimos and said: "You know, for years we couldn't do anything with those Eskimos at all; they didn't