Like Rudyard Kipling's criticism of the Victorian spirit of Imperialism in his poem "<em>The White Man’s Burden</em>", in times when people used to believe colonialism and imperialism was a "<em>noble mission</em>" rather than a condescending and bigoted attitude, by thinking their actions were a way of helping the natives of other regions of the world become civilized, instead of a justification of violence; one of Joseph Conrad's critique of imperialism in his novel "<em>Heart of Darkness</em>" is to frame it as a burden on white society, but he also illustrates specially the cruelty of African exploitation. Thereby I would say All options are included (<em>all of the above</em>) and especially C.
