Question

"No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress." The Burmese people spit on the European women because...

Answer 1

Because they despised them.

Step-by-step explanation:

Shooting an Elephant is an essay written by George Orwell during the Indian Imperialism set in Moulmein, Burma. The author describes British Raj over Indians and how he hated his job as British Policemen.

Though he was European, he was on side of Burmese people, yet he was ridiculed by Burmese.

In his essay, he writes that though Burmese people could not revolt openly against Britishers or European, they would show their disgust towards them by humiliating them. One way they humiliate Europeans was by spitting betel juice over European woman who goes out alone into the bazaars.