Title An example that could be considered racist is found in chapter one. In this paragraph, Joseph Conrad talks about how Europeans are colonizing Africa and what they are doing to the natives in the process. According to him, Europeans are responsible for many things, including extremely violent robberies and the murder of numerous people. He's talking about the reality of colonization and how, in the end, countries will only care about profiting from it. He said they achieve this by using “brute force,” which of course means violence and killing. European countries wanted to take Africa away from those who had “a different complexion or a slightly flatter nose”. Up to this point, it does not appear that Conrad is using racist ideas. But then he goes on to say that all of this is acceptable because it will be worth it in the end. In other words, he was trying to say that the ends will justify the means, no matter how many innocent people are hurt in the process (page 8). Furthermore, in this same passage, Joseph Conrad describes this whole ordeal as actually being a rather altruistic idea. He says that the men who do all this in Africa are actually making some kind of sacrifice. Furthermore, in the passage it says that this is something that others will “bow down before” and worship. What Europeans were doing in Africa was in no way to be worshiped or seen as a sacrifice. They didn't sacrifice themselves; if anyone was sacrificed in this situation, it would be all innocent Africans. This idea presented by Conrad could definitely be seen as racist, because what those men did was not right in any way, and they absolutely should not be worshiped for it (page 8). There... middle of the paper... ....l kind of calling it a "satanic litany". Again, just because they spoke a different language doesn't allow Conrad to describe him as evil and not human. He seems to think that Europeans were superior to Africans only because the language they spoke was different and unknown to them (p. 78). In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, almost all of the racism is directed against Africans. However, there is an example where racism towards another person occurred. One night Marlow overhears a conversation and discovers that the manager thought the Russian merchant, who was a friend of Kurtz, should be hanged. The manager wants to kill this man just because he doesn't look exactly like him, which is similar to the fact that Europeans thought they were better than Africans because they were different (pg. 72).