Impact of Colonialism

The Impact of Colonialism
Colonialism has brought structure to the world. However, this barbaric approach to acquiring land has affected both the colonizers as well as the colonized. Colonialism is clearly shown through the culture of people around the world. The languages that people speak can determine the exact country that they were once colonized by. Colonialism was not a choice, but a barbaric act that was sanctioned by Europeans upon the helpless people of Africa. Colonialism greatly impacted both the colonizer and the colonizer in that it turned the colonizers into savages, caused the colonized to lose their identity and caused the descendants of the colonizers to reap their ancestor’s fate.
The basis for the colonizers colonizing Africa was not only for economic reason. Most colonizers claim that they felt the need to assist the Africans with their way of life. Africans were believed to be incapable of living on their own and perceived to be savages based off of their religious preferences. Europeans associated paganism with savagery and felt obligated to “help” these so called savages by leading them to Christ. Not only by taking control of the country, but its inhabitants, causing the colonizers to transform into true savages. Aime Cesaire states in his book, Discourse on Colonialism, “The native riflemen had orders to kill only men, but no one restrained them; intoxicated by the smell of blood, they spared not one woman… it was the blood of the five thousand victims, the ghost of the city, evaporating in the setting sun.” Colonialism stripped the colonizers of their humanity. Such things as forcing the natives to do their evil biddings revealed the colonizer’s character, which was weak and immoral. Commanding the natives to take the lives of innocent men, just to avoid the risk of an uprising against this crude approach to colonizing the innocent people. Not only did this turn the colonizers into savages but it also cultivated the colonized into the