COLONIAL MENTALITY, __________________________________ UNDENIABLE FACT......edited by owusu gyasi. A Colonial mentality is a conceptual theory around feelings of inferiority within some societies post-European colonialism , relative to the values of the foreign powers which they became aware of through the contact period of colonization . The concept essentially refers to the acceptance, by the colonized, of the culture or doctrines of the colonizer as intrinsically more worthy or superior. The subject matter is quite controversial and debated. Origins Throughout human history, nations and peoples have continuously colonised and been colonised. It is said that when a foreign colonial or imperial power is too strong to be effectively resisted, the colonised population often has no other immediate option than to accept the rule of the foreigners as an inescapable reality of life. As time progresses, the colonised indigenous people -natives would perceive the differences between the foreigners and themselves, between the foreigners ways and the native ways. This would then sometimes lead the natives to mimic the foreigners that are in power as they began to associate that power and success with the foreigners ways . This eventually leads to the foreigners ways being regarded as the better way and being held in a higher esteem than previous indigenous ways......
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