{"id":11331,"date":"2021-02-08T20:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=11331"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:06:38","slug":"the-myth-of-the-british-colonial-master-and-his-infamous-piggy-back-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2021\/02\/08\/the-myth-of-the-british-colonial-master-and-his-infamous-piggy-back-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The myth of the British colonial \u2018master\u2019 and his infamous piggy-back ride&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was shared this morning on my social media feed, showing how the British mistreated locals and women in the past:\u00a0<em>&#8220;1930, A British Official being carried by a Bengali woman in a remote area of United India where no buses or cars could go.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it is not true but hey, its social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/146180957_1739509922883578_3868461501845690059_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11332\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/146180957_1739509922883578_3868461501845690059_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/146180957_1739509922883578_3868461501845690059_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/146180957_1739509922883578_3868461501845690059_n-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/146180957_1739509922883578_3868461501845690059_n-198x270.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can well imagine, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@johnkelly_17973\/the-myth-of-the-british-colonial-master-and-his-infamous-piggy-back-ride-john-kelly-phd-4b6576adf60c\">the back story is completely different and the image does not show what you think it shows.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not a British officer, but a Frenchman in Burma (now called Myanmar). The local translator said his wife was so strong that she could carry him &#8211; and she agreed. She then demonstrated she could carry him, and the French official had it photographed using an early Kodak camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not at all what was photographed: &#8220;&#8221;1930, A British Official being carried by a Bengali woman in a remote area of United India where no buses or cars could go.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}