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    treatment of native people during postcolonial times. In JanMohamed’s “The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature‚” JanMohamed talks about the reasons for colonialism‚ both covert and overt. He explains the covert reasoning behind colonialism is the need for resources; colonies are used for natural resources and are economically exploited (JanMohamed 81). He goes on to say that “the European desire to exploit resources… drastically disrupted the

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    Colonialism began much earlier with Columbus discovery of America. It was a big issue during Shakespeare’s time. The opening up of new frontiers and new land being discovered stimulated European information. The Tempest explores the complex and problematic relationship between the European colonizer and the native colonised people through the relationship between Prospero and Caliban. Prospero views Caliban as a lesser being than himself. As such‚ Prospero believes that Caliban should be grateful

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    Throughout Canadian history‚ the effects of colonialism have hindered the reclamation process between Indigenous Peoples and their land. During the “Art of Engaging Difference” workshop‚ I was inspired by Dr. Rhonda Breitkreuz’ thought-provoking discussion where she revealed the difference between tolerating the existence of Indigenous Peoples in contrast to respecting their culture‚ heritage‚ and history. With the upcoming sesquicentennial anniversary of Canadian Confederation‚ otherwise known as

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    he “had already made up [his] mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner [he] chucked out [his] job the better” because the mistreatment of the people around him makes him feel “an intolerable sense of guilt.” However‚ he perpetuates colonialism by not quitting his job‚ viewing Indian and Burmese people as savage and inferior to him‚ and‚ ultimately‚ by shooting an elephant “solely to avoid looking like a fool” in front of a crowd of onlookers‚ even though he knows it isn’t what he “ought

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    “It is the human capacity to extend and limit compassion that gives racial ideology its fatal power‚ making identity into a knife that severs social relations and disembowels entire countries” (Hintjens‚ 2001). The history of colonialism‚ more specifically within Africa‚ has illustrated the fatal power of ethnic manipulation that Dr. Hintjens referred to. Neocolonialism impedes on both the sovereignty and the right of these post-colonial regimes to self-determination‚ as it has rendered it reasonably

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    West Asia Syria and Lebanon As in other parts of Asia‚ there was an upsurge for freedom in West Asia also immediately after the Second World War. You have read in the previous chapter about the movement of the people of Syria against the French rule. After the war‚ the French tried to restore their authority over Syria and Lebanon but‚ in the face of opposition from the people of these countries and the world opinion‚ they were forced to withdraw. Both Syria and Lebanon became independent by the

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    Internal Colonialism: Internal colonialism is a notion of structural political and economic inequalities between regions within a nation state. The term is used to describe the uneven effects of economic development on a regional basis‚ otherwise known as "uneven development"‚ and to describe the exploitation of minority groups within a wider society. This is held to be similar to the relationship between metropole and colony‚ in colonialism proper. 1.2. The Bengali Ethnonationalist Movement

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    Act of attacking different grounds & regions‚ with the end goal of settlement and/or resource exploitation. “Colonialism is a form of temporally extended domination by people over other people and as such part of the historical universe of forms of intergroup domination‚ subjugation‚ oppression‚ and exploitation” [1] Western colonial expansion started amid the fifteenth century when Spanish and Portuguese voyagers vanquished "new" lands in the West Indies and the Americas. It finished

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    history on this continent…Yet Canadians are going to celebrate their 150 completely erasing and ignoring the thousands of years of Indigenous experiences". There has even been an alternate logo created for Canada 150 by Eric Ritskes which says‚ “Colonialism 150”.

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