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colonial mentality
A colonial mentality is a conceptual theory around feelings of inferiority within some societies post-European colonialism, relative to the values of the foreign powers which they became aware of through the contact period of colonization. The concept essentially refers to the acceptance, by the colonized, of the culture or doctrines of the colonizer as intrinsically more worthy or superior. The subject matter is quite controversial and debated. Colonial mentality in men can be displayed in how a brown man places higher or lower value on a woman as a partner based on skin color or race. It can also be displayed in the brown person's insecurity about the way that they look as a brown person. Such as being ashamed of skin color, facial features, and if the ethnic group has curly hair, also being insecure about their curly hair. People who suffer from a colonial mentality, oftentimes do not realize that they have one and could become defensive when confronted on it. A colonial mentality usually affects people of color and can also be found amongst biracial people. It's psychological damage as a result of the society they live in. One way for the person who suffers from this mentality, to overcome this mentality, is to realize that they have it, and work towards self-love and overcoming their inferiority complex.
==Origins==
Throughout human history, nations and peoples have continuously colonised and been colonised. It is said that when a foreign colonial or imperial power is too strong to be effectively resisted, the colonised population often has no other immediate option than to accept the rule of the foreigners as an inescapable reality of life. As time progresses, the colonised indigenous people-natives would perceive the differences between the foreigners and themselves, between the foreigners' ways and the native ways.
This would then sometimes lead the natives to mimic the foreigners that are in power as they began to associate that power and success with the ''foreigners' ways''. This eventually leads to the ''foreigners' ways'' being regarded as the ''better way'' and being held in a higher esteem than previous indigenous ways.
In much the same fashion, and with the same reasoning of ''better-ness'', the colonised soon equates the foreigners' racial strain itself as being responsible for their ''superiority''. The native soon strives to that strain to give their children a ''better'' standing in life than just their native genes.
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