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White Man's Burden?

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The gathering oddly reminds me of that scene in Hergé's 1935 masterpiece, Tintin and the Blue Lotus (aka Tintin in China):



The scene is referred thusly in London Review of Books:



And here is the whole scene (pages 6 through 7):




I know, right?



Where is Mark Twain when we need him?

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