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What is the cultural conflict in shooting an elephant?

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The principal cultural conflict in "Shooting an Elephant" is between the colonized Burmese people and their British colonizers. At the time the story is set, the 1920s, Burma was a part of India, the British colony considered the jewel in the crown of the British empire.

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