What Does It Mean to Be Colonized?

Derrick Broze

December 26, 2020

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   Gen Agustsson December 26, 2020

   I barely know people who are indigenous but I do agree with decolonizing mind and stuff!

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   Pookie December 31, 2020

   I am of Romanian descent. Not only did the Christians nearly delete our old Slav traditions, the Soviet Union destroyed the rest along with our history. We have all been colonized and demoralized, disconnected from the Mother and deceived. It is the nature of Kali Yuga!

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   Maya January 3, 2021

   The Spaniard Visigothic Kingdom were invaded and colonized by the Umayad Muslim invaders. For 700 years the resistance fought against the invaders until the Reconquista was completed and Spain united. All Muslim countries that were destroy when Muslims invaded the natives have no freedoms, no separation of church and state. No securalism.

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   Isla February 16, 2021

   I like that you’re not equating colonization with ‘whiteness’. You seem to be equating colonization to ‘taking by force’, which I would agree with.
   So would you say that globalism is the next development of colonization ? A forced one-world government?
   Also, since some elements of colonization are welcomed (some technology, knowledge etc.), what would be the process for accepting some elements, but not others?

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   Deborah Gammack April 16, 2021

   Thank you so much for addressing this issue, and especially for including the indigenous people of Europe. Being an elder, I am so happy to see youngers whose understanding embraces this. I am reading Not in His Image, by John Lamb Lash. Here is what he says on this subject: The time span for Europa – pre-Christian Europe – would be from the close of the Ice Age, around 9500 B.C.E., until the post-feudal period when nation-states began to emerge — say, 1400 C.E. The Pagan values of Europa still survived into the Renaissance, even though put under enormous stress by the repressive measures of Roman Christianity. Assaults on the indigenous people included the campaigns against the Cathars and Albigensians in the twelfth century, the Inquisition launched in the fifteenth century, and the witch hunts that raged across Europe between 1450 and 1750, claiming untold numbers of lives. As late as 1976 women suspected of practicing witchcraft were murdered in England, Hungary and Germany.
   European cultures present close parallels to those of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Europeans “knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources,”…that their habitat was a natural paradise. They too were deeply conservative…Anyone who travels in Europe sees the evidence of people who have lived for centuries in a sustained relation to their environment….For centuries the Pagan inhabitants all across the wide fertile continent exerted special effort to preserve and enhance the bounty of nature…
   Yet the invaders of the New World were so alienated from their own roots that they saw all the American tribes -[through the eyes of their colonizers, as they were once seen]- as savages to be slaughtered, converted and enslaved, rather than as counterparts of themselves from a distant time.

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