"When it became common practice during the nineteenth century for Britain to retire its administrators from India and elsewhere once they had reached the age of fifty-five, then a further refinement in Orientalism had been achieved; no Oriental was ever allowed to see a Westerner as he aged and degenerated, just as no Westerner needed ever to see himself, mirrored in the eyes of the subject race, as anything but a vigorous, rational, ever-alert young Raj." https://readingtheperiphery.org/orientalism/
То, что для служащих колониальной администрации 55 лет был стандартным пенсионным возрастом - это факт.
The age of retirement in the civil service was 55 during the colonial rule. As most of the officers were Englishmen they preferred early retirement from service in India so that they could go to their homeland and peacefully settle down. https://academic.oup.com/book/10795/chapter-abstract/158941189
Это практиковалось не только в Индии, но и в других колониях.
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"When it became common practice during the nineteenth century for Britain to retire its administrators from India and elsewhere once they had reached the age of fifty-five, then a further refinement in Orientalism had been achieved; no Oriental was ever allowed to see a Westerner as he aged and degenerated, just as no Westerner needed ever to see himself, mirrored in the eyes of the subject race, as anything but a vigorous, rational, ever-alert young Raj."
https://readingtheperiphery.org/orientalism/
То, что для служащих колониальной администрации 55 лет был стандартным пенсионным возрастом - это факт.
The age of retirement in the civil service was 55 during the colonial rule. As most of the officers were Englishmen they preferred early retirement from service in India so that they could go to their homeland and peacefully settle down.
https://academic.oup.com/book/10795/chapter-abstract/158941189
Это практиковалось не только в Индии, но и в других колониях.
The normal retirement age was 55, set originally to allow for the adverse effect the tropical climate had on their health.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Service
То, что это делалось для того, чтобы аборигены не видели англичан пожилыми - домыслы.
РАЗУМЕЕТСЯ и антисемит
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