In my Postcolonial Literature class, we are reading a book by Ania Loomba in which it talks about the orient or object of most likely British affection. For instance people from Africa become the orient and then the British makes a mockery of them... trying to Christianize them, civilize them, teach them the British ways! In Loomba, it is stated, "The process by which Christianity is made available to heathens, or indeed Shakespeare made available  to the uncultured, is designed to assert authority  of these books, and through these books, the authority of European or English culture..." (Loomba 78). In these colonies of 'heathens' they used Shakespeare in an effort to convert them with "religious and cultural truths". But,  Lala Hardayal, the founder of the anti-colonial claims that Shakespeare "argued for human equailty and that we should remember Shylock ( from the Merchant of Venice and his famous I am a jew speech"  if we are ever tempted to scorn or wrong a brother man of another race or creed" (79).  this argument can be seen, or proven true with Shakespeare's other piece Othello in which a minority plays as his leading hero above all the white men.