Read Said Edward’s ‘Culture and Imperialism’ and Memmi Albert’s ‘Mythical portrait of the colonized’ in The Colonizer and the Colonized.
Now answer these Questions:
1. Why do certain countries colonize others? Try to think of specific examples.
2. Who is the colonized?
3. Can you describe the relationship between the colonizer and colonized?
4. What is decolonization? How can it be achieved?
5. What is the link between culture and empire?
6. Why does Said refer to French schools on p11?
7. Why does Said refer to Robinson Crusoe?
8. How does Europe represent its Other according to Said?
9. What is imperialism?
10. What are the main traits of the colonized that Memmi describes?
11. How does this portrait facilitate colonization?
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