"Shooting an Elephant"

I believe in ways Orwell is a coward because dispite his beliefs he conforms with the British. He is afraid of the consequences and views of his peers. Even when he was faced with killing the peaceful, nondeserving elephant he was afraid of what the natives think (and they were suppose to be inferior to him). I don't think he is a racist either. The text said he favored the Indians. I think he was only putting on a frunt that he disliked them to not be shunned by his other British people.