When Gandhi arrived in South Africa, according to Herman, he thought of himself as "a Briton first, and an Indian second".[72] However, the prejudice against him and his fellow Indians from British people that Gandhi experienced and observed deeply bothered him. He found it humiliating, struggling to understand how some people can feel honour or superiority or pleasure in such inhumane practices.[2] Gandhi began to question his people's standing in the British Empire.[73]