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    They use this education to influence people into their line of thinking. They also send their men to villages to be the ruler over them. They begin to spread their culture onto the local people by talking about their beliefs. In source one, colonialism is spread by keeping local villages living conditions poor, little management by officers, and by giving false hope to the local people. It explains in the source, that the roads are bad to keep the town isolated from other people with different

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    colonial theory (SCT) is a means for non-indigenous people to disturb colonial privilege accrued by settler societies from the displacement and suppression of indigenous peoples and their culture (Makoun & Strakosch, 2013). Settler colonialism is a distinct form of colonialism that facets by way of the substitute of indigenous populations with an invasive settler society that, over time, develops a unique identity and sovereignty. Settler colonial states include Canada, the U.S., Australia, and South

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    Europe and Asia in the nineteenth century, these nations to developed a dependence for economic growth due to exploitation of the people and land. In most academic writing, Africa’s economic growth was understood to be limited during the period of colonialism, however in Bayart’s writing, it is explained how African societies used “dependence as a mode of action” to reap benefits for themselves. In this effort, it is seen that these African nations were not able to benefit from said terms agreed on the

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    Postcolonialism is an academic discipline featuring methods of intellectual discourse that analyze, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism, to the human consequences of controlling a country and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native people and their land. According to Edward said, Said's book Orientalism (1978) is considered the foundational work on which post-colonial theory developed. Said, then, could be considered the 'father'

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    Brown begins with reference to colonialist topics in Shakespeare’s play. Brown’s chapter seeks to analyze colonialism in The Tempest, predicting that though the play seeks to reconcile many colonialist issues, the play merely illustrates how such colonialist problems began. Brown grounds his analysis in Rolfe’s request to marry Pocahontas. Rolfe’s letter to the Governor rewrites Pocahontas as other, illustrating that “the whole struggle” over the other “is conducted in relation to the female body”

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    Orwell and Colonialism I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." So ends George Orwell's poignant reminiscence of an incident representing the imperialist British in Burma. Unlike Soyinka, who wrote about colonialism from the African's point of view, Orwell, like Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness, presents the moral dilemmas of the imperialist. Orwell served with the Imperialist Police in Burma while it was still part of the British

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    When looking at Canada as a whole, we often tend to overlook the past events of Indigenous groups who have suffered through Colonialism. As I read about this issue, I felt sympathy for the Indigenous peoples, as it was overwhelming for me to find out that this much discrimination has occurred in a nation as diverse and developed as Canada. Reading more about colonization helped me to make connections between the issues and topics I have learned about in class, and how they can be traced back to European

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    Finally, European colonization also had a major political impact on different African communities. Prior to European colonialism, most African localities were stateless societies, where there was no main governmental body. Bohannan and Curtin in their passage explain how African “stateless organization all use kinship as the idiom of their system of sanctions” (1995:92), and additionally explain how “since there are two centers of power, no bureaucracy can arise” (1995:92), in stateless societies

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    There is almost no romanticising of history as he depicts the bloody and gruesome truth behind colonial repression. His poems become the tools to appropriate history and rewrite colonialism from the perspective of the victims and not the colonisers. According to Walcott, colonialism caused a separation or division of self in Caribbean writers who have to struggle with the questions of identity. As Shara McCallum remarks: A poem exposes and defines the moment that a particular consciousness

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    The colonialism of Vietnam by the French lasted for approximately six decades. In the late of 1880s, the French had the control of the Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, commonly known as the French Indochina (Indochine Francais) (Mason 7). As such, Indochina was able to assume the status of being the lucrative colonial possessions of the French. It became the French empire, which spanned the western and northern Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific empires. The French formulated the civilizing mission as

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