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Colonized Minds in the West: Decolonize Your Mind – Part 3/3 (opens the original)
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“Overt at times, subtle at others, that messaging targets both colonizer and colonized. The message is the same: the supposed “superiority” or “supremacy” of the colonizing race.”So I write in Part 1, in which I address mental colonization in colonized and formerly-colonized populations. You may also wish to review </spa
Decolonize Your Mind – Part 2/3: Authority and Privilege (opens the original)
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“Consciously or unconsciously, the mentally-colonized person or movement seeks the approval of the colonizer. The approval-seeking in turn reinforces the perception of supremacy that the colonizer is attempting to project. This feedback is what makes it dangerous to a people yearning for freedom.”This essay continues from Part 1, in which I define mental colonization, review its historical roots in the Eastern Mediterranean and its connection to Stockholm Syndrome.<
Decolonize Your Mind! Can you?! – Part 1/3 (opens the original)
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Freedom begins with the mind!Many are those who think they are free, but are bound in ideas, attitudes, and behaviors to what I call “mental colonization”. Incessantly over the course of our lives, through culture, education, mass media, and even family networks, we have all been conditioned into such thinking.Subscribe nowTo entrench Colonialism, or the idea that the white man has the right, even duty, to take over large stretches of the world, Europe has pro
Poem: Night (opens the original)
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Grossly paraphrasing Frantz Fanon, “If you seek the light, you have to learn to be comfortable with the darkness.”What does night conjure to you?Mystery? Rest? Romance? Loneliness? Insomnia? Struggles? Lovemaking? Longing? Sleep? Dreaming? Fantasy?<div class="image2-
12: Matador: The Wisdom of Choosing Your Battles (opens the original)
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Ambition sees red.Wisdom sees a red cloth.One step to the side,Slick move, matador.<img alt="My first visit to Valencia in 2011 came immediately after bullfighting was banned in Catalonia. The Plaza de Toros was having an identity crisis, hosting
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