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is a broad phenomenon in which we are all colonized, since as children we are introduced into cultures, territories, laws and identities which we eventually identify as `ours'.

Derrida intervenes, suggesting that if we think of colonization in a sufficiently broad way, we could [page 18] all be described as colonized. He defines culture itself as a kind of colonization. As children, we all are introduced into cultures, territories, laws and identities which we eventually identify as `ours'. We find ourselves born in a nation, implicated in its history, and immersed in the language that we acquire. Law, land and language do not properly belong even to those who are legally 'British', 'American' or 'Australian'. (net)

is a hegemonic notion in postcolonial studies such that we have undergone the intellectual colonization of colonization.

In postcolonial studies the notion of colonization starts to function as a hegemonic notion... it is elevated into a universal paradigm so that male sex colonizes female sex and upper classes colonize lower classes. Especially with some ''progressive'' interpreters of contemporary biology, it is popular to focus on how the opposing positions are overdetermined by the politico-ideological stance of their authors. (Zizek 2002 : 29)

is a condition in which the conquered nation is like a man with cancer; he can think of nothing else.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else. George Bernard Shaw

is the creation of an inferiority complex in the soul of the colonized by the death and burial of its local cultural originality. One is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to one's adoption of the colonizer's country's cultural standards.

Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation... that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. Frantz Fanon

 works like this: when the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we [Africans] had the land. They said, "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we [Africans] had the land. They said, "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

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