#Colonial

Suhag A. Shukla

SuhagAShukla

This article exemplifies how colonial mentality -- the internalization of attitudes of cultural inferiority by previously colonized people -- is multigenerational. Their descendants' may never have been colonized physically, but

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Decolonization and Growth: A brief thread.Let's see how some large post-colonial nations are doing economically, compared to their former colonizers, since the 1960s. 2/First, Indonesia vs. Netherlands.Indonesia is still at

Saamaale

SamatarYunus

#CoonFiles #BritishSomaliland #Somaliland #Somali #Somali #history in this thread, I will be analyzing the Somali coons who joined the colonial armies of Britain, to oppress other Somalis. Enjoy. The tribes

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

When Governor-General Bentinck abolished Sati (Suttee, as Britishers called it), he had a larger-than-life statue commissioned showing him dramatically rescuing and Indian women from the funeral pyre. (It can still

Charles Thépaut

diplocharlie

[Thread] #France will establish a “memories and truth” commission to review its colonial history in #Algeria. This is an important development, which follows other moves to address French colonial legacy.

Martin Jacques

martjacques

1/8 The year started with a major Western assault on China over its handling of Covid-19. China was on the defensive. 2020 is ending with China riding high and the

ms ann dree.

wazobiann

my siblings desire a relationship with our parents. i realized that was the missing variable in the quantum equation of our family: desire. each of us have specific desires that

Sarah Bell

sarahsgonewild

Absolutely enthralled by the @Nat_SCA Decolonising Natural Science Collections conference and we’re only on the first speaker. I can’t wait to learn more about this! This quote really got me:https://twitter.com/nat_sca/status/1329367738

Hanna EK

HannaEK6

Why should a language scholar from Finland care about decolonization? “All I wanna do is study languages, and Finland never had any colonies. Why should I care?” I’m glad you

Murtala

Murtalaibin

Nigeria needs to teach history and general studies. The text is called Ajami, a centuries-old practice of writing other languages using modified Arabic script.This tweet also explains the neglect of

Indigenous Anarchist Federation

IAF__FAI

Just a reminder... China is a settler colonial state.China and America are not so different: both sit on thrones of authority, sacrifice the well being out their citizens for profit

Sita Balani

sitainshort

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/chumocracy-covid-revealed-shape-tory-establishment this article does a brilliant job of mapping how a small group of tories are profiting off our misery. what it doesn't show is that these h

Faizah Zakaria

laurelinarien

There is a polarizing debate on SGTwitter about Peranakan Nasi Lemak and whether it is really a thing/ a thing worth paying highly for. I wouldn’t weigh in on it

Arsalan Khan

akkhan81

IK's entire worldview is captured in the Iranian intellectual Jalal Ale Ahmad's concept of "gharbzadegi" or Occidentosis (Westruckness).https://twitter.com/zburki/status/1335232396011171841 Here's the text. It's re

Alexander Davidson

alex_davidson82

One of the things that the western left has failed to understand is how, thanks to combined and uneven development, capitalism emerges in different nations. This failure lies rooted in

SAHARAWI VOICE

SAHARAWIVOICE

1-Thread on colonial propaganda in Western Sahara: In 1974, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's government created a puppet 'political party' in Western Sahara to push Franco's colonial propaganda into the communities

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