Post-colonialism

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Post-colonialism

What is going on in the picture in the previous slide?

Post-colonialism

Colonizers have to deal with their past as oppressors. The formerly colonized have to deal with their past of suppression. This complicated relationship mainly developed from the Eurocentric perspective. Post colonialism turns this perspective around.

Post-colonialism

Colonizers have to deal with their past as oppressors. The formerly colonized have to deal with their past of suppression. This complicated relationship mainly developed from the Eurocentric perspective. Post colonialism turns this perspective around.

Identity and self-confidence

Colonial powers destroyed a lot of native tradition and culture and they replaced them with their own ones. After their independence former colonies could not get rid of the western way of life from one day to the other; they could not manage to create a completely new one either.