Post-colonialism

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Post-colonialism

Cecil Rhodes

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.

"The Rhodes Colossus" – a cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne, published in Punch after Rhodes announced plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo in 1892.

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.

Summarise the talk in a few sentences with help of your notes. Discuss your summary with your neighbour.

Where do children get their ideas from about other people, about other countries, other continents? Can you think of examples from your own youth?

Have you or anyone you know ever encountered prejudice of any kind? What remark set this off? What was the response? How can you deal with prejudice?