Post-Colonial Vocab

the process by which Oppressors define the Other as a homogenous group and project negative cultural aspects onto them

• debasement

• worlding

• othering

• going native

A pejorative term to point to any Europeans who, while living in the colonies, adopted the customs and habits of the natives.

• debasement

• worlding

• going native

• the other

The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.

• othering

• cultural assimilation

• worlding

• debasement

a group of colonized people that that colonial rulers would elevate to assist in maintaining control

• debasement

• worlding

• comprador class

• the other

the process whereby an individual or groups of people attribute negative characteristics to other individuals or groups of people that set them apart as representing that which is opposite to them.

• debasement

• going native

• othering

• cultural assimilation

the process of creating a binary separation of the colonizer and the colonized that is critical to assert the naturalness of the supremacy of the oppressor’s culture and world view

• othering

• worlding

• debasement

• cultural assimilation