조지 오웰의 수필이다.
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people-the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter. 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. As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. When a nimble Burman tripped me up on the football field and the referee (another Burman) looked the other way, the crowd yelled with hideous laughter. This happened more than once. In the end the sneering yellow faces of young men that met me everywhere, the insults hooted after me when I was at a safe distance, got badly on my nerves. The young Buddhist priests were the worst of all. There were several thousands of them in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans.
에릭 아서 블레어(Eric Arthur Blair, 1903년 6월 25일 ~ 1950년 1월 21일)는 인도에서 태어난 영국 작가이자 언론인으로, 조지 오웰(George Orwell)이라는 필명으로 더 잘 알려져 있다. 그는 20세기 영어권의 가장 중요한 소설가, 비평가, 정치평론가 중 한 명이며 영어권에서 널리 존경받고 있다. 그는 만년의 두 소설 《동물 농장》과 《1984년》으로 특히 유명해졌다.
1950년에 오랫동안 앓아 온 결핵으로 세상을 떠났다.