Postcoloniaism

• Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the

academic study of the cultural legacy of
colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the
human consequences of the control and
exploitation of colonized people and their
lands.
• Imperialism is a policy or ideology of
extending a nation's rule over foreign nations,
often by military force or by gaining political
and economic control of other areas.
• An ideology is a set of normative beliefs and
values that a person or other entity has for
non-epistemic reasons. These rely on basic
assumptions about reality that may or may
not have any factual basis.
• Orientalism is the study of Near and Far
Eastern societies and cultures, languages, and
peoples by Western scholars. It can also refer
to the imitation or depiction of aspects of
Eastern cultures in the West by writers,
designers, and artists.Jan 4, 2019
• A diaspora is a scattered population whose
origin lies in a separate geographic locale. In
particular, diaspora has come to refer to
involuntary mass dispersions of a population
from its indigenous ...
• Hegemony is the political, economic, or
military predominance or control of one state
over others. In ancient Greece, hegemony
denoted the politico-military dominance of a
city-state over other city-states. The dominant
state is known as the hegemon.
• Hybridity is associated with the appearance
of postcolonial discussion and its review of
cultural imperialism. It is a theory that studies
the mixture of identity and culture. ... Homi K.
Bhabha, a Professor of English,
American Literature and Language, Harvard
University, Cambridge, has coined a key
concept of hybridity.
• Mimicry in colonial and postcolonial
literature is most commonly seen when
members of a colonized society (say, Indians
or Africans) imitate the language, dress,
politics, or cultural attitude of their colonizers
(say, the British or the French). ... [See more
on "reverse mimicry" below.])
• White supremacy in British
• noun
• the theory or belief that White people are
innately superior to people of other races
• The White Man's Burden: The United States
and the Philippine Islands, by Rudyard Kipling,
is a poem about the Philippine–American War,
which exhorts the U.S. to assume colonial
control of the Filipino people and their
country.
• Racism is the belief in the superiority of one
race over another. It may also mean prejudice,
discrimination, or antagonism directed against
other people because they are of a different
race or ethnicity. Modern variants of racism
are often based in social perceptions of
biological differences between peoples.
• Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of that which
is perceived to be foreign or strange.[1][2][3]
Xenophobia can involve perceptions of an
ingroup toward an outgroup and can manifest
itself in suspicion of the activities of others,
and a desire to eliminate their presence to
secure a presumed purity and may relate to a
fear of losing national, ethnic or racial identity.
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• In post-colonial studies and in critical theory,
the term subaltern designates the colonial
populations who are socially, politically, and
geographically outside the hierarchy of power
of a colony, and of the empire's metropolitan
homeland
• Postcolonial literature seeks to era the
colonial past of a nation. ... Gyanendra Pandey
argues that 'minorities are constituted along
with the nation' and nation constructs and
colonises specific groups and communities
even it (nation) claims independence as
postcolony
• A national consciousness is a shared sense of
national identity; a shared understanding that
a people group shares a common
ethnic/linguistic/cultural background.
Historically, a rise in national consciousness
has been the first step towards the creation of
a nation.