WORLD HISTORY

COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM

COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“The practice, theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan centre ruling a distant territory”
A
Imperialism
B
Hegemony
C
Colonisation
D
Aggregation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Edward Said offers the following distinction: “ ‘imperialism’ means the practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan centre ruling a distant territory; ‘colonialism’, which is almost always a consequence of imperialism, is the implanting of settlements on distant territory” (Said 1993: 8).

Detailed explanation-2: -Through amateurism, Said indicates how creating such a culture in literary works can be one of the most resisting factors in the postcolonial societies. Thus, he suffers from an intellectual personal imperialism, which is in contradiction with the world of critical theories and criticism .

Detailed explanation-3: -The unbroken relationship between them has led many activities that took the place in Western countries’ policies. As it is started as an ideology, Orientalism has merged itself with the power of Imperialism. At the end it became a tool for the politics and used to imperialize Eastern societies.

Detailed explanation-4: -Culture and Imperialism focuses on how power and ideology work, both consciously and unconsciously, to form and maintain a system of domination that goes beyond military force.

Detailed explanation-5: -The term cultural imperialism refers most broadly to the exercise of domination in cultural relationships in which the values, practices, and meanings of a powerful foreign culture are imposed upon one or more native cultures.

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