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From a platform for anti-colonialist sentiment to a gateway for the incursion of Western culture, digital technology muddies the boundary between colonialist and subaltern, reactionary and dissident, indigenous and non-indigenous.
In Sepultura's case, the call is to destroy colonialist control.
So am I a colonialist for being repulsed by cannibalism?
Art Review CHICAGO — Prodigy, pathfinder, nonconformist, virtuoso; fabulist, plagiarist, colonialist, pedophile.
The controversy around colonialist themes in board games is not new.
Strip away the book's colonialist tendencies, which are much harder to stomach in post-colonialist 2018, and you've still got a kid, some animals, and a lesson about accepting your responsibilities as you grow toward adulthood.
"Blimpish figure," and the sort of gallivanting colonialist with too much time
Whenever a local individual protested colonialist actions, their ears were cut off.
Fossil fuels rest on a foundation of colonialist exploitation and rent-seeking.
Wolfie Masters: I'm not sure Jen got the anti-colonialist subtext of Avatar.
Nowadays, the Commonwealth is a voluntary organization in the UK's post-colonialist world.
Progressives see it through the "continued colonialist oppression" narrative and condemn those actions.
" Bolsonaro indignantly accused Macron of a "colonialist mentality unacceptable in the 21st century.
Net neutrality is anti-colonialist, and is thus part of a wider political project.
"In the beginning, it was represented in very colonialist terms, very racist terms," Heaney said.
As the trumpeter Nicholas Payton recently put it, '' 'Jazz' is an oppressive, colonialist slave term.
"You are implementing white supremacist and colonialist tactics to do your bidding," another said, exasperated.
"They thought vengeance was theirs to take," he said, describing how the colonialist mind works.
But if you think that other people shouldn't have access, then you're the true colonialist.
But say what you want about bars with neo-colonialist decor: they make great food!
Mr Dixon dispels old colonialist prejudices that European languages are sophisticated and indigenous ones primitive.
To the historian, that is invaluable: an unfaded snapshot of colonialist condescension at its smoothest.
I think Britain especially needs to start facing up to how brutal our colonialist past was.
Instead, it's a meaningful catalyst for cultural ownership, sovereignty, and healing from years of colonialist oppression.
Ruling Socialist Party leaders have described the criticism as colonialist interference led by the United States.
To many of them, Israel is a colonialist enterprise, not a miracle of Jewish self-determination.
How dare the British Museum use my history and my culture to hide its colonialist skeletons.
Negron acknowledged the irony of playing a colonialist monarch in a U.S. territory without voting privileges.
And here was this experience quietly forcing players to examine their assumptions about a colonialist power fantasy.
Seemingly in response to criticism on colonialist tones from the series, the latest Far Cry goes domestic.
Headlines celebrate the latest trade deals alongside the supreme leader's fulminations against Western plans for "colonialist inculcation".
The heirloom show's colonialist elements will also be familiar to many — and they are not left unaddressed.
He also claimed that Macron's attempt to address the issue without Brazil's presence represented a colonialist mindset.
Xinhua, the official news agency, suggested that the United States was acting like a deluded colonialist holdover.
The colonialist fantasy in Monster Hunter World was often couched with a weak framing as "ecological study".
When an unrepentant colonialist blows his brains out, they splatter all over a wall map of Africa.
For decades, National Geographic has been criticized for its colonialist approach to nonwhite cultures, specifically indigenous communities.
By this, he does not mean a colonialist mythology of an unreflective "native potency" that can be recovered.
Remember that some places that are considered "unsafe" have that reputation more because of racist or colonialist attitudes.
The British port at Singapore was established in 1819 by the absurdly-named colonialist Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
So I don't think that you're a colonialist; I think that you're somebody who's influenced by Western culture.
Some critics retorted that given its colonialist past, Britain should be the last country to preach about occupation.
Bolsonaro accused the French leader of having a "colonialist mindset" at the time, after Macron condemned the fires.
Older classics of the Eurogame genre obscure their colonialist themes behind a gauze of historicity: Little, polite lies.
Putting aside the matter of her colonialist exploits, Wasikowska's Alice Kingsleigh is a convention-defying, self-actualized Victorian female.
Rowling likewise glosses over the racist and colonialist history that inspires Leta's birth, Yusuf's revenge, and Nagini's constant imprisonment.
Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, said world leaders were showing a "colonialist mentality" in trying to offer funds to help.
They gave the country new borders and a new name, Rhodesia, for Cecil John Rhodes, the British arch-colonialist.
Elsewhere, old colonialist classifications, shaped along geographic and ethnic lines, are still deeply ingrained, not to mention politically useful.
Bolsonaro, meanwhile, has accused the French President of having a "colonialist mindset," and publicly insulted his wife, Brigitte Macron.
He was a prolific novelist and a fearsome, brutal colonialist and is buried in a magisterial tomb in Buckinghamshire.
Even if one fully accepts Khalidi's colonialist thesis, does that move us any closer to some kind of resolution?
If you call yourself a Zionist because your family fled Germany to escape a concentration camp, you are a colonialist.
The expedition is yet another representation of "colonialist speech," and an offense against the indigenous people's knowledge, the experts said.
The result is dreamlike, even as it carries a critique of Jamaica's colonialist history and a vision of its beauty.
Specifically, the museum's second floor, where an exposed platform lets you look down on various high points of colonialist engineering.
Q: I mean that there's a critique that our coverage of news was totally Western-centric and at times colonialist.
This is the old story of a war that was never not, from a Western ideological perspective, a colonialist enterprise.
Hers is a cinema of everyday rituals, personal histories and a knotty reckoning with the lingering effects of colonialist aggressions.
In Acierto's version, the child's body has been ghosted out of the frame — an erasure that foregrounds the colonialist violence.
Mr. Bolsonaro accused Mr. Macron of having a "colonialist mind-set" and told him to stay out of Brazilian business.
Mr. Bolsonaro accused Mr. Macron of having a "colonialist mind-set" and told him to stay out of Brazilian business.
Such a global-colonialist way of seeing the world (as supermarket) bothered me in how it, without apprehension, embraced non-differentiation.
These practices were always implicitly colonialist, because they posited whiteness as a norm, and became explicitly so in the colonial context.
The result is dreamlike, even as it simultaneously presents a critique of Jamaica's colonialist history and a vision of its beauty.
Sure, Brazil has been a victim of colonialist exploitation during its history and it has a right to protect its sovereignty.
Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads was originally published in 1892, during the late Victorian era —while India was held firmly under colonialist rule.
An American Women's History Museum would be an opportunity to upend the colonialist framework and literal whitewashing typical of many national institutions.
But relatively little was said about Prism Stalker, Leong's anti-colonialist biopunk story featuring Vep, a space refugee separated from her family.
The irony of these conversations taking place in Banff—the birthplace of Canada's colonialist national parks system—was not lost on participants.
The vast majority of these types of trips rely heavily on the colonialist idea that "poor" communities aren't capable of helping themselves.
In a more perfect world, WB would just give Glover free rein to tell the story about Wonka's dark, confectionary colonialist past.
"There's no reason other than old colonialist inertia to continue using a Russian spelling for a Ukrainian city name," Dr. Shevchuk said.
That's partly to do with his chosen location, an island that's a colonialist pawn, and also with his use of contemporary language.
With these jarring clashes of civilizations and faiths, Mr. Vo returns the favor of the cultural vandalism that is a colonialist privilege.
The country's leader, Park Chung-hee, the military general who came to power in 1961, had worked for the Japanese colonialist regime.
Bolsonaro has described the offer of international help as a "colonialist mentality," while Macron has questioned the Brazilian president's commitment to environmentalism.
A French engineer, he worked for a diamond mining company and had "escaped the colonialist mentality," as she wrote in her memoir.
In 1960, he returned to Rhodesia and worked as publicity secretary for the newly founded anti-colonialist, African nationalist National Democratic Party.
This choreographed bloodletting seems to be a dramatization of the colonialist period and the irreparable violence inflicted on the indigenous peoples of Australia.
At a time when Confederate and colonialist monuments are being debated and removed, contemporary sculpture has the capacity to join the national dialogue.
Young people of color intimately know the ways that military, industrial, imperialist, and colonialist endeavors have directly led to the current environmental degradation.
That the center allowed this show to be exhibited is perhaps an acknowledgment of the culpability of Spain in that failed colonialist project.
Different designers and critics have addressed the problem of how to treat colonialist themes properly in different ways—it's a much discussed subject.
A 225-year-old monument honoring Christopher Columbus, the explorer and colonialist who traveled from Spain to "discover" America, was vandalized on Monday morning.
There are numerous quotes that are so deeply backward as to be laughable if they weren't tragic demonstrations of the book's decidedly colonialist bent.
Even Newt Gingrich endorsed the idea that the president was a "Kenyan anti-colonialist" who despised the United States and everything it stood for.
Another campaign, "Rhodes Must Fall", argued that a statue of the Victorian colonialist at Oxford symbolised that the university was not for black students.
"Brazil is a democratic, free nation that never had colonialist and imperialist practices, as perhaps is the objective of the Frenchman Macron," he said.
Zero-rating is absolutely part of the net neutrality conversation stateside—should resisting these trends be seen as pro-net neutrality, or anti-colonialist?
He invoked an ugly and fictional past, reaching back to the 17th century, to paint Israel as a colonialist project engineered by European powers.
He invoked an ugly and fictional past, reaching back to the 17th century to paint Israel as a colonialist project engineered by European powers.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider found Lara Croft playing at National Geographic-style photojournalism even in the middle of a kinder, gentler colonialist pillaging.
She married a Dutch colonialist, had three children by him — and yet, at the end of her story, she is degraded, poor, and abandoned.
SOME elements of "La Soledad" ("Solitude", pictured), Jorge Thielen Armand's debut feature film about life in a crumbling colonialist mansion in Caracas, encourage the imagination.
Sepultura's Chaos A.D. is a poison-tipped volley of anti-racist and anti-colonialist sentiments, making it the perfect album to listen to right now.
Earlier that day Onyx Lorenzoni, Bolsonaro's chief of staff, also said Brazil was rejecting the G7's money and accused France of reviving colonialist tendencies.
He frames the economic crisis as "them" against "us," a national struggle comparable to Turkey's war of independence against Western colonialist powers a century ago.
For years, Native Hawaiian opponents, who see the scope as a colonialist intrusion, have clashed with scientists who want to move forward with construction anyway.
"We came in not as a colonialist gallery but to support the market by showing Asian art, mostly Chinese," said Arne Glimcher, the gallery's founder.
These memories stuck with her and inspired the messages she now expresses in her work, like L.G.B.T.Q. pride, anti-colonialist sentiments and mental health awareness.
Investor Marc Andreessen took to Twitter to express his irritation with the regulator's decision in a statement that some on the Internet likened to colonialist attitudes.
But my more passionate objection is to work that takes on a missionary-ism, that espouses a political position but in fact is a colonialist occupation.
Alex Cox ("Repo Man") directed this 1987 satire about William Walker (Ed Harris), an American colonialist who in the 1850s invaded Nicaragua and named himself president.
The root of the problem, he said, was that France was still locked in a racist, colonialist mind-set and could not see Muslims as equals.
Her consumerism, her profession, her politics — Bonapartist, anti-Dreyfusard, devoutly colonialist — and the sheer size of her wealth, make her, alas, a woman for our time.
So too with Sarah Baartman, dubbed the "Hottentot Venus," and other performers of color who were put on display and subject to racist and colonialist attitudes.
The French government had formally abolished slavery only 15 years before Manet painted "Olympia," and Laure is often interpreted as representing French colonialist and racist discourses.
It had come under heavy critique from board gamers for, in the words of GMT's own statement, "both topic and treatment" of its colonialist historical setting.
These wild contradictions in Trump's apparent worldview, the policies that veer between radically realist and outright colonialist, are what make his foreign policy so difficult to read.
More than anyone else, Le Guin showed me how to write SFF with an anthropological approach while interrogating the colonialist agenda and assumptions of the field itself.
Photos posted on social media showed one partygoer in blackface as others turned up to the party wrapped in leopard skin prints or dressed as colonialist explorers.
In Britain, Oxford has been ensnared in a debate over whether to remove a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes from one of the university's colleges.
Free Basics has been referred to as colonialist before, even on this very website, for many of the same reasons that Indian regulators gave for their decision.
The philosopher Lisa Heldke has critiqued the colonialist impulse behind what she calls "eating adventures," which she likens to collecting and uprooting artifacts from their cultural context.
They've allowed us to see how pigeonholing culture on the old one-tribe-one-art model creates a "them" as opposed to "us," basically a colonialist model.
And their presence moves the exhibition beyond a focus on a stand-alone peace movement and links it to much older civil rights and anti-colonialist struggles.
Getting to the root of this perspective means understanding the role the Second Amendment has played in shoring up white supremacist and colonialist violence in this country.
To wit: The world's countries have long been trapped in a corrupt struggle for finite resources that has carried untold colonialist oppression and ecological ruin in its wake.
The birth conspiracy theories that dogged President Barack Obama were absurd but they had a clear thrust: He was a Kenyan, secret Muslim anti-colonialist (and possibly Marxist).
He was a guerilla leader who opposed Portuguese colonialist rule, and later fought against the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which assumed power after decolonization.
Working from an anti-colonialist and anti-oppression perspective as a white woman is all about open communication, collaboration, and the constant seeking of knowledge from lived experiences.
" He wrote a week later, "We need to make sure we have done everything we can to beat Barack Hussein Obama and his progressive, Maoist, anti-colonialist followers.
Supporters blame a Western conspiracy designed to undermine Islamist rule in Sudan, just as Bashir rejected the ICC charges over Darfur as part of a neo-colonialist plot.
Masimba Hwati, based in Harare, Zimbabwe, sold a "soil sample" taken from a hill in that city where "the First Colonialist settlers planted the British flag" in 1890.
He is now rebuking international calls for action over the fires, accusing leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron of having a "colonialist mentality" by offering money to help.
But Dr. Chatterjee said that Mother Teresa's place in the Western canon was enough for some Indians to lionize her as part of an ingrained colonialist mind-set.
The story of the failed indigenous uprising against the forces of Hernán Cortés evidently touched a nerve in Pinis and inspired a work simmering with anti-colonialist outrage.
Chobi Mela has grown in influence since its inception in 1999 and has consistently challenged a "colonialist viewpoint" that is often promoted in Western photography, Mr. Alam said.
The global concern over the fires has riled Bolsonaro, who insists the blazes are a domestic issue and has Macron of adopting a "colonialist mindset" towards his country.
Born in 303, Mr. Anas grew up in the small town of Ben Badis in eastern Algeria, and recalls a happy childhood in the optimistic post-colonialist period.
How would you respond to those who might draw parallels between what you do and the colonialist drive that spread Christianity to far-flung corners of the globe?
In particular, the movie's attempts to sand off some of Kipling's pro-colonialist themes lead to sections that don't make a lot of sense (again, especially in the ending).
" Boynton went on to observe that the scheme carries colonialist overtones, pointing out the high ick factor connected to any scheme that "asks Westerners to adopt African women's genitals.
Thus, they uncover the inherent violence of the European colonialist project manifested through its propagandist images of hunters, soldiers, and missionaries bringing civilization to the corners of the globe.
Recently Mr Zuckerberg suffered a defeat in India, where his plan to bring free internet to the poor was dismissed as a colonialist attempt to impose a corporate agenda.
"Brazil is a democratic, free nation that never had colonialist and imperialist practices, as perhaps is the objective of the Frenchman Macron," Lorenzoni told the Brazilian news site G1.
He rejected, however, the $20 million in international aid offered by the G7 countries, accusing French President Emmanuel Macron of having a "colonialist mentality" by offering money to help.
Despite its modern record, the Rhodes trust is inescapably linked to Rhodes himself, an unabashed colonialist now widely seen as a leading European exploiter of African resources and people.
They are a challenge to colonialist language and linguistic white supremacy; they are full of joy and fear, with overwhelming layers and gaping omissions that say just as much.
Becki Hack, Houston "The Hawaii Cure," by Wells Tower, treads a well-worn path of colonialist tropes as a writer indulges his escapism fantasies with a trip to Hawaii.
One of them is Dame Mary Beard, who has herself waded into discussions of race and ethnicity with some success, but who has also been criticized for colonialist language.
Despite the radical advances in the field of anthropology since the time of Margaret Mead, most of the wall text at that institution perpetuates racist, essentialist, and colonialist narratives.
Officials in Puerto Rico objected strenuously last week to what they saw as the colonialist overtones of an oversight board whose voting members would all be selected by the president.
The series serves double duty; paying homage to Villa's work as it exposed colonialist homogenization of indigenous artistic practices, and marking Arteche's path into deeper understanding of her cultural roots.
The Nigeria pavilion, themed around the concept of "now," hopes to shape a cultural and national identity outside of the colonialist narrative that the country has long been forced into.
Like the Soviet Union — another socialist state that denounced Western imperialism while itself assuming power in a former empire — the P.R.C. did not want to look like an evil colonialist.
Not only does she lack firsthand knowledge of that impotent rage of racism, but she clearly doesn't understand the colonialist nature of that racism, and her willing participation in it.
The irony associated with Thanksgiving's colonialist history now manifests today as a fear about how to survive what's supposed to be one of the warmest, rosiest holidays of the year.
Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations in August offered $20 million of emergency aid to help fight Amazon fires, a gesture Brazil at the time criticized as colonialist.
"The gesture of bringing a replica of an anti-modern statue to Havana is not only expensive and colonialist, but it also represents a step backwards for Cuban artists," Fuentes said.
As a Korean student of philosophy and aesthetics at Tokyo's Nihon University in the late-fifties and early-sixties, Lee began his artistic career from an anti-authoritarian, anti-colonialist angle.
The European country never fully acknowledged its colonialist past in the Caribbean; although the Danish government recognizes Denmark's wrongful role in the slave trade, it has never formally apologized for it.
Problems and controversies have emerged along with China's expanding footprint in Africa, with critics labeling the country a "neo-colonialist" only interested in exploiting the continent's rich resources and cheap labor.
In an "Arab world" museum, the presence here of a hagiographic image of Napoleon, colonialist invader of Islamic North Africa and pilferer of non-Western art, is ripe with political irony.
The basic Buddhist analysis of the human predicament makes sense, as well, of the irony of colonialist conceptions of Buddhism and of the misguidedness of colonial attempts to exploit religious identities.
While she was carried on the stretcher, she would joke that she was General Sudirman, an anti-colonialist war hero who carried on the fight from a stretcher after being wounded.
"Now our struggle is even weightier," than earlier struggles against colonialist and imperialist powers, she said, "because the people we are facing down aren't foreigners, but are from our own nation."
I was hoping for something besides the often unaddressed, highly problematic, colonialist, racist underpinnings that pieces brought into Europe from around the world invoke in terms of the repatriation-versus-preservation debate.
According to Cardenal, this liberation may only be obtained through socialism, which can offer a fair redistribution of wealth and allow the poor to share the means of production with colonialist elites.
The media need to abandon the "archaeological" images of Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, who sit deeply in the conscience of the West and have their ancestry in Victorian-era colonialist experience.
And just by being there it points up the problematic politics of a work like Picasso's — with its fractured female bodies and colonialist appropriations — that is at the core of the collection.
Mr. Bourguiba's statue had replaced a humiliating symbol of colonialism: an image of the colonialist politician Jules Ferry with a Tunisian woman at his feet proffering an olive branch, he reminded Tunisians.
Rather, it may justifiably include second thoughts about a racist (read: Eurocentric colonialist) element in the Zionist ideal, one that has reappeared among the far right and ultra-Orthodox in Israel today.
Eventually, buckling under the strain of denying himself — coupled with a growing awareness of the colonialist implications of the church's teachings, and a racist dynamic he could no longer ignore — he left.
Throughout the week, many of the first lady's outfits featured muted fabrics and large, utilitarian pockets, a look that can best be described as a cross between safari chic and colonialist couture.
Its aim is to reclaim the genre of landscape photography from its colonialist and Orientalist origins and to allow photographers from the region to tell their home countries' stories as they see them.
" The canon of Land Art, often devoid of the sociocultural or spiritual narratives that make up the land itself, is its own kind of colonialist territory, and Sondra Perry's single-channel video, "imakelandartnow.
Of course, she was a colonialist; but she was still devoted to the country, founded the National Museum and set rules for the export of antiquities, a fearless woman in a man's world.
For his efforts, the anti-colonialist newspaper he wrote for, the Alger-Républicain, and its successor were shut down by the colonial authorities, and he was blacklisted, forcing his eventual exile in Paris.
In the case of this rising star, the rules some countries put in place to protect themselves from colonialist-style theft of resources may have been used to cut Helgen down to size.
And Daniela Ortiz, who is based in Barcelona, brings a selection of tabletop-size ceramic prototypes for anti-colonialist monuments, including a beheaded alternative to a Christopher Columbus statue in New York City.
These victims and millions more were the grisly harvest of the Belgian King Leopold II's colonialist regime in the region then known as the Congo Free State — now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Whenever I mentioned urging my students to capture the details of the world, he would say, "I hate that verb," and pull me into another debate about the colonialist roots of travel writing.
As Hyperallergic's Elena Goukassian reported, over 500 protestors showed up that day to demand that the museum remove the Roosevelt statue as well as overhaul its colonialist displays of indigenous histories and artifacts.
"Brazil is a democratic, free nation that never had colonialist and imperialist practices, as perhaps is the objective of the Frenchman Macron," Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, said on Monday.
The full video seems to make him sound much more like an International Monetary Fund or World Bank wonk: in other words, out of touch, philosophical, and a bit like a latter-day colonialist.
Jews, of course, are a minority, but through a fashionable cultural prism they are seen as the minority that isn't — that is to say white, privileged and identified with an "imperialist-colonialist" state, Israel.
Combing the crash site with a metal detector, he sports a pith helmet—a cliché of colonialist attire, and not that funny, given the record of Western exploitation in this part of the world.
The history of Western music is populated with examples of this kind of project going wrong, of artists and label owners approaching distant lands with a colonialist eye, but Cardoso's approach is simple and affectionate.
Mugabe was joined by thousands of supporters to celebrate his birthday at a school in Matobo just outside the second biggest city Bulawayo, and a short distance from the grave of colonialist Cecil John Rhodes.
"The French President's suggestion that Amazonian issues be discussed at the G-7 without the participation of the countries of the region evokes a misplaced colonialist mindset in the 21st century," he said on Twitter.
From illuminated manuscripts to paintings by the likes of Andrea Mantegna and Peter Paul Rubens, Balthazar considers the enslaved people that likely served as models for these artworks and the colonialist history that underlies them.
The group, which was originally known as the "Thanksgiving Four" before ditching the name out of concerns regarding its association with a colonialist holiday, said it will file charges with the NLRB later this week.
" While pith helmets are still available for purchase online and in hat shops, they have come to symbolize white colonialist rule over the years, and, according to The Guardian, "a symbol of status -- and oppression.
There's the influence of European history in J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of Middle Earth, or the allusions to Nazism and genocide in Voldemort's pure-blood ideology, or the white colonialist narrative in Avatar, among others.
"The French President's suggestion that Amazonian issues be discussed at the G85033 without the participation of the countries of the region evokes a misplaced colonialist mindset in the 21st century," he said on Twitter last Thursday.
The colonialist power fantasy is enticing because it is, like most power fantasies, ultimately about control, and in this case, giving control to the player in a way that simulates struggle and dominance over "untamed" lands.
If China was initially welcomed as a deep-pocketed investor — and an alternative to America — it has faced growing criticism that it is less an economic partner than a 1.53st-century incarnation of a colonialist power.
It's more of a posthumous collaboration, an uncanny and thrilling communion between the filmmaker — whose previous work includes both a documentary and a narrative feature about the Congolese anti-colonialist leader Patrice Lumumba — and his subject.
An extension of colonialist theory, it is predicated on the notion that white women are not having enough children and that falling birthrates will lead to white people around the world being replaced by nonwhite people.
As a woman from the Middle East, I interact with a heteropatriarchy, capitalist, colonialist world, and so much of that experience creates a certain kind of alienation that is unique to my very personal/political experience.
Even the supposedly objective history of science is marked by the colonialist impulse of European scientists claiming their first experience of a species as its discovery, ignoring or erasing local and indigenous people's knowledge and experience.
In the past three years Mr Jammeh has withdrawn Gambia from the "colonialist" Commonwealth, scrapped English as an official language and, in October, quit the International Criminal Court (ICC), which he denounced as the "International Caucasian Court".
But embracing a weird, vaguely colonialist (and arguably racially tinged) line of argument is unlikely to win the Brexit cause any new converts so much as piss off admirers of Obama on both sides of the Atlantic.
LONDON (Reuters) - The chancellor of Oxford University has warned against rewriting history in his first public comments on a student campaign to remove a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes from one of the university's colleges.
You can see it in attacks on "socialized medicine" and European-style "class warfare," and in more sophisticated and paranoid attacks like Dinesh D'Souza's claim that Barack Obama is animated by a fundamentally foreign anti-colonialist perspective.
Through the full set of low rank quests, Monster Hunter: World embodies exactly this colonialist fantasy: the pillaging of natural resources, the violence against native people, and the rhetorical establishment of the colonizer as civilized and rational.
After all, the hubris of these men and their colonialist, militarist society insisted that better technology (in the form of the best ships the Royal Navy could spare) could conquer the Arctic and knit the world together.
The officials also said they knew that any legislative help would come at a stiff price: Puerto Rico would have to submit to a federal control board, something viewed by some on the island as colonialist-style interference.
The petition and protest in Oxford had provoked an intense discussion about whether Britain' s colonial past should be judged by contemporary standards, and whether Rhodes should be remembered more as a ruthless colonialist or as a benefactor.
The force of Gutiérrez Alea's anti-colonialist argument comes from ironic juxtaposition — the Count's drunken stupor set against the tableau of the Last Supper, or the island's lush forests poisoned by the gospel of gun smoke and genocide.
Medina is a socialist and activist working for the political party Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, a sister organization to the US Socialist Alternative party, and Lee-Lundberg is an activist working in the feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonialist movements.
More interesting, especially given how routine colonialist fantasies tend to play out, it is Williams who voices the complexities, catastrophic errors and redemptive efforts of the so-called civilized world, a screen job usually given to white saviors.
Most of the nation's 110,000 people have fled to Australia and New Zealand—both of which are struggling with climate-driven scarcity in their own economies, and reverting to uglier forms of discrimination from their shared colonialist past.
But Washington soon lost patience with Nasser's nonalignment policy and his anti-colonialist speeches, and Egypt fell more fully into the camp of the Soviets until the 1970s, when President Anwar Sadat switched his allegiance to the West.
Blue State continues to stretch a bit too far in Divya Mehra's inflatable book depicting the first-edition cover of critic Edward Said's post-colonialist classic, Orientalism, a cover which happens to contain a large swathe of blue.
Instead of bans based on religion and race, family separation policies, and arbitrary bigotry dictating who is worthy of citizenship, we could steer away from colonialist ideals of a nation that only serves the interests of the rich.
Robert Cuccioli makes an appealingly unaffected Caesar: an invader, yes; a colonialist, yes; a man who knows the value of pomp and a crown of laurels, yes; but one wise enough to see his own feet of clay.
The director — who himself faced controversy for allegedly portraying a "white colonialist" narrative within Swift's "Wildest Dreams" video, which he has vehemently denied doing — tweeted that men, including himself, don't seem to have a problem with the "manipulative" label.
Regardless of what these opening moments suggest, and despite the story team's interest in prodding at the colonialist underpinning of making a series called "Tomb Raider" in the first place, everything in this world is very much about Lara.
The game's colonialist framing ultimately bothers me the most when it pushes towards the extremes, when one capture or kill quest becomes dozens upon dozens, an endless parade of half-hearted justifications to go have awesome fights against monsters.
The repatriation of the bones, which were exhumed or taken without permission from their ancestral country, is a step forward in the ongoing effort to reverse the colonialist collecting practices still evident on the shelves of many Western institutions.
In the early 1800s, colonialist "scientists" used fatness as one of the markers for social hierarchies, with fatness as one of the "uncivilized" characteristics attributed to the Black and indigenous people placed at the bottom of this scale. 42.
As France moves forward and for the moment, begins to implement the recommendations given in this study, the pressure on other formerly colonialist nations increases to join the effort to "rebalance the geography of African heritage", as Savoy interprets it.
"I remember when we were taught at a young age about the French colonialist occupier, when the [Syrian] regime pretended to be a champion of national sovereignty," one of the protesters, a USAID-funded project manager, Abdul Rahman,* told me.
We often refrain from calling out anti-Semitism on our side for fear of our political bona fides being questioned or, worse, losing friends or being smeared as the things we most revile: racist, white supremacist, colonialist and so on.
"This doesn't mean I am simply drinking the Kool Aid or I give up my critical distance, but I feel this is more honest than the colonialist presumed superiority of a curator that goes to China to 'discover' the scene."
Criticisms that this and similar works amplify the male gaze with colonialist power dynamics are well deserved, but the scale and self-containment of these women are welcome in a show where so many are presented for display, abducted or killed.
Walcott's poetry centers around his life in St. Lucia in the Caribbean, and with the complex colonialist legacy that created his world — but it contains multitudes, and it travels around the world as much as its voraciously erudite author did.
The project was widely criticized as being a prime example of colonialist white savior rhetoric, designed to commercially appeal to Westerners who would then go buy the organization's branded T-shirts, and not actually aid or facilitate action from Ugandans.
Instead, in scene after scene, Cuarón creates a fine-grained vision of a woman and a world shaped by a colonialist past that inexorably weighs down the present, most conspicuously in a surreal interlude filled with guns, servants and a conflagration.
What had once been seen as an intractable regional conflict between a democracy and a series of authoritarian regimes trying to destroy it is now seen as a conflict between a white colonialist power and the brown people it oppresses.
What had once been seen as an intractable regional conflict between a democracy and a series of authoritarian regimes trying to destroy it is now seen as a conflict between a white colonialist power and the brown people it oppresses.
Ms. Mozman Solano focuses on a single man: Paul Gauguin, a towering figure in Post-Impressionist art, also known for his ugly colonialist behavior in the South Pacific (that is, having sex with very young women and infecting them with syphilis).
The genius of Endō's story and Scorsese's adaptation is that it won't characterize anyone as a saint, nor will it either fully condone or reject the colonialist impulses, the religious oppression, the apostasy, or the faltering faith of its characters.
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The very act of defending his poor historical analogy sees Dreher reclaim colonialist rhetoric; the kind of thinking that let the British justify the famine they engineered in India, for example ("They are a beastly people with a beastly religion," Churchill said).
Brian Truitt, USA Today This "Frozen" doubles down on its own history, as Anna and Elsa find out about hostilities between their royal grandfather and an indigenous clan of people called the Northuldra (cue lots of Native American symbolism and colonialist themes).
So does the Peruvian ceramist Daniela Ortiz, who incorporates plenty of verbal and symbolic agitation—for example, against the colonialist legacy of monuments to Christopher Columbus—into her satirical, terrific painted pots and figurines, but with a charm that quite disarms militancy.
Rebel Wilson's speech — where she called the Royal Albert Hall the "Royal Andrew Hall" — received the biggest round of applause and an eruption of laughter in the press room, while Taika Waititi's acceptance speech was laden with jokes about Britain's colonialist past.
Deeply involved in the Gandhi-led anti-colonialist movement, she repurposed the illustrational naturalism taught in British-founded art schools by filtering it through older indigenous styles like those found in the sixth-century Buddhist murals at Ajanta and in Rajput miniatures.
For more than a half century, Africans have been battling the vestiges a colonialist system that bequeathed unshakable leaders, one-party states, and authoritarian structures of government which lacked respect for human rights, denied the rule of law, and entrenched corruption and nepotism.
Her "Book of Paintings" (2017) has maps of the Caribbean and diagrams of weaponry such as knives, machetes, and guns, and a list of leaders who bucked the colonialist order, among them: Harriet Tubman, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, and Marcus Garvey.
The artist Ayana V. Jackson uses her own body to repudiate the typical colonialist story by inserting herself in that story as a Black woman whose very presence prompts the viewer to consider those bodies made less visible by 19th-century middle-class portraiture.
The subjects range from the colonialist history of foreign powers to China's stability compared with the United States and Europe, and each video is aimed to appeal to younger audiences, using a conversational tone, sleek graphics and a minimalist set featuring a leather sofa.
Racinet's 19th-century colonialist bias comes through in his book's Eurocentrism; for example, he devotes a mere 15 illustrations to the clothing and ornament of the African continent, as opposed to dozens of illustrations and pages of text on the fashions of his native France.
All of them are drawn from old fairy tales and legends, but Lion King feels the most archetypal: The animals fit into types, and the film on the whole vibes with a pro-monarchical view of leadership, laced with a historical anti-colonialist critique.
When news of Gordon Ramsay's National Geographic show Uncharted broke last summer, critics piled on and rightly so, calling it "the last thing the food world needs right now" and a "colonialist mess," and describing Ramsay as "no Anthony Bourdain," who had died just a month before.
The Battle of Algiers is a French film about the ways a colonialist power seeks to contain a guerrilla force — and that force supposedly inspired the Black Panthers, the IRA, and the JKLF in Pakistan, as well as one of the founders of the Baader-Meinhof Group.
Diversity is part of the vision—the magazine's subjects are from all over the world, and its fashion models come in every skin color—but this diversity is presented, in a vaguely colonialist way, more as a cool look to buy into than a tangible social ideal.
You get a sense of the method in the first gallery, with its cases of pre-Columbian gold work and Hopi ceramics glowing against dark walls, within clear sight of Gilbert Stuart's full-length 1796 portrait of George Washington, a colonialist colossus, in the bright room beyond.
But asking whether President Obama was really born in America anyway, or saying he has a "Kenyan anti-colonialist" outlook because of his father, or darkly hinting that he is more sympathetic to America's Islamist enemies than its allies because he has something in common with them?
"I do not believe this work is a significant or exceptional example of a (heteronormative) male colonialist gaze in this work, certainly less so than, for example, in Picasso's 'Demoiselles d'Avignon,' " Tim Barringer, professor of the history of art at Yale University, said in an email.
The situation reminded Johannes of the Rhodes Must Fall movement led by students at the University of Cape Town, who fought for the removal of the campus's statue of Cecil Rhodes, a British colonialist they say championed racism and ultimately paved the way for apartheid in South Africa.
As I left the venue and made my way home towards Wedding, a district in Berlin with streets dedicated to German colonizers, I saw my surroundings with a renewed sense of contradiction, and reflected on the many ways in which Germany has failed to acknowledge its colonialist past.
The artist has transformed the gallery's white-cube space into a caricature of a derelict Chinese business — a gesture that reads to me as colonialist aggression even if  the exhibition's press release frames it as "an eclectic aesthetic" — in order to present video works from 2008 and 2017.
The Descriptivist understands language is an ever-changing thing and it's the job of the grammarian to try to make flexible rules of grammar that match how people use words in real life — the Descriptivist also probably has a chip on their shoulder about Victorians and Colonialist attitudes.
Speaking on the eve of the Paris meeting, Dore Gold, the director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, even compared the French effort to the Sykes-Picot agreement, a secret colonialist pact signed by Britain and France 100 years ago to divide up the territory of the Ottoman Empire.
There were, however, regionally focused art groups and movements, such as the Nanyang Style, formed by largely Chinese immigrants, that combined both Chinese and Western aesthetics; the anti-colonialist Social Realist Equator Arts Society, begun in 1956; and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) formed in 1967.
Viewing imagery of these sites or peoples from above with no permission is no less of a colonialist act and may cause harm to communities that did not choose to be imaged, like "uncontacted" tribal groups in Brazil, who could then face further attacks from loggers or miners.
In finding their own avenues toward sexual liberation, these sex travelers are grappling with a practice that is traditionally colonialist, racist, and classist—and finding more ethical ways to travel while horny than soliciting sex workers in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, where sex tourism fuels local economies.
Far more than arcane arguments over historical minutiae, the Arafat-Abbas tradition of denying a longstanding Jewish link to Jerusalem is the Palestinian's inimitable way of saying that the Jews are simply the latest wave of Crusaders, that Israel is nothing but a colonialist presence in the Middle East.
Kipling has been variously labelled a colonialist, a jingoist, a racist, an anti-Semite, a misogynist, a right-wing imperialist warmonger; and—though some scholars have argued that his views were more complicated than he is given credit for—to some degree he really was all those things.
In recent days, French President Emmanuel Macron decided not even to try to draft a communiqué for this weekend's meeting of the G7 leaders of developed economies in Biarritz, and his proposal to discuss fires in the Amazon was rejected by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as evoking "a colonialist mentality".
It seems like an obvious statement for a storyteller to make, but the idea of "writing back" was somewhat radical 50 years ago when authors in Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean decided to use fiction to challenge the Eurocentric perspectives and colonialist themes dormant in Victorian and modernist classics.
The willow-lined May-Ayim-Ufer, which was previously named after a 17th-century Prussian colonialist associated with the slave trade, runs along the Kreuzberg side of the Spree River, opposite the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall in one of the most diverse, left-leaning areas of the city.
" She characterized speaking out against the occupation as a "moral imperative," but added: "Casting the movement for Jewish self-determination as a racist, Western colonialist enterprise, rather than a liberation movement for a minority population subject to generations of pogroms, exile, discrimination and ultimately genocide, is self-serving historical revisionism.
The institution is not just a platform for contemporary African art; it is an effort to rewrite the Eurocentric history of African art from a uniquely African perspective and course correct for the colonialist myopia that has excluded artists from the Global South from equal representation in international museum exhibitions and collections.
Dang's thoughtful and compelling 2018 solo debut, Southern Oceans, installed at Motel Gallery, explored Pacific colonialism's symbolic, material, and ecological legacies, in this case through imaginative reproductions of breadfruits, 18th-century shipping containers, and wallpaper crammed with colonialist iconography (specifically, French painter Jean-Gabriel Charvet's "Savages of the Pacific Ocean," ca. 1805).
" Vassar and other elite liberal schools create the world as they wish it to be, not as it is, viewing the Israeli/Palestinian issue as they view all issues, through an anti-Western prism, with Israel as the foreign Western colonialist established by Western imperialism victimizing the "indigenous" Palestinian "people of color.
Presumably, the croc was hoping to snack on the small children onboard, or perhaps lodge a complaint about the indignities of having to make his home in northern Australia's East Alligator River, which, according to local lore, got its name from a 19th-century British colonialist who couldn't tell his aquatic reptiles apart.
Flashman, who was spun off into a parody series by George MacDonald Fraser in the decidedly un-Victorian late 1960s and '70s, is a coward and a drunkard, a rogue callously indifferent to the plight of natives and his fellow soldiers alike: everything wrong, in other words, with the colonialist ideals of empire.
Mr. Gray both wrote and directed "The Lost City of Z," and he has managed to pull off something exceedingly tricky here: a film that has the old-fashioned cinematic sweep (and sense of New World awe and discovery) of a picture like David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" but without all the familiar colonialist stereotypes.
The fever dream of a globe-trotting Hindu merchant and banking clan called the Nattukottai Chettiars that thrived during colonialist expansion, the massive homes — at least those not abandoned due to the crushing cost of upkeep, then pillaged for the remarkable architectural details within — are still owned by the families whose ancestors built them.
It includes a partial quote from the Southern Poverty Law Center, the latter half of which we've added and emphasized: In his personal bearing and tone, Jared Taylor projects himself as a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist — a kind of modern-day version of the refined but racist colonialist of old.
The construction of race as we know it today happened after the medieval period, generally during a time period of medievalist scholarship in the Enlightenment period of the mid-1700s, and had a distinct goal in mind when theorizing a mythical white middle ages, which would allow for colonialist and xenophobic ideologies to have an historical foundation.
At the same time, the film partly alleviates, however unwittingly, Rudyard Kipling's weighty colonialist baggage, both by giving Mowgli, an Indian child, a golly-gee American voice, and by casting George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan, who sounds just as you would expect a world-weary British royal to sound after centuries of pillaging.
Article 7 of the Nationality Law, whereby the state shall regard Jewish settlement as a national value and work to advance it, has a distinctly colonialist tone, addressing Jewish settlement without any mention of the 20 percent of the population who are Arabs and who live in crowded conditions, under continuous threat of having their land appropriated.
The two-hour film — running just a little less than the length of three TV episodes — mixes the show's usual wry humor and exaggerated intrigue into an examination of how even the honor of hosting a king and queen could come to mean something different in a decade marked by pro-democratic and anti-colonialist movements.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ST. LOUIS — As a visionary movement, "Afro-Surrealism" was first fully realized in the manifesto of D. Scot Miller in 2009, but its roots go decades back to the Négritude days of the 1930s, in which Caribbean students such as Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor reimagined Surrealist methods to denounce the legacy of colonialist literary models.
" In a letter from prison, published in The Guardian and the Cairene news site Mada Masr, Mr. Abd El Fattah bemoaned the fact that "the very language of revolution was lost to us, replaced by a dangerous cocktail of nationalist, nativist, collectivist and post-colonialist language, appropriated by both sides of the conflict and used to spin convoluted conspiracy theories and spread paranoia.
Not surprisingly, these chieftains of white settler colonies are fierce cultural warriors; they are all affiliated with private donors who build platforms where political correctness, Islam and feminism are excoriated, the facts of injustice and inequality denied, chests thumped about a superior but sadly imperiled Western civilization, and fraternal sympathy extended to Israel, the world's last active settler-colonialist project.
He even took a dig at her, using the nickname, during a recent ceremony honoring a group of Native American code talkers who served the U.S. military during World War II. Warren went on to highlight the fact-based story of Pocahontas, who is often portrayed in contemporary American stories as a beautiful woman who saved the life of John Smith, an English colonialist.
Democrats said the president's aversion to providing aid to the island is based on a racist and colonialist attitude toward Puerto Rico, and the idea that Puerto Rico and its 21.5 million US citizens are not really part of the US. "Denying the funds they need to recover while requesting the 'A+ treatment' for other states is insulting to Puerto Ricans and for Latinos in general to say the least," Sen.
Roberta Smith co-chief art critic at The New York Times, writing about the Louvre version of the painting in a review of the 2018 retrospective, said, "Criticisms that this and similar works amplify the male gaze with colonialist power dynamics are well deserved, but the scale and self-containment of these women are welcome in a show where so many are presented for display, abducted or killed."
The central 14-foot-long sitting area is similarly streamlined, with a Van Duysen-designed sofa in beige Belgian linen against the back wall, a pair of low chairs carved in tropical hardwood by the Italian-born Brazilian Modernist Lina Bo Bardi in 1958 — an allusion to Portugal's colonialist history — and, in black linen, two of the high-backed English reading chairs that Van Duysen has had custom-made for many of his projects.
"...The practice of eating dog has been wielded in the past to exoticize and demean us as heartless monsters who wouldn't blink twice at barbecuing man's best friend," now- San Francisco Chronicle critic Soleil Ho wrote for Taste in 2018, who added that when the Igorot people of the Philippines grilled dog at the 1904 World's Fair, it was used as justification of America's colonialist efforts to "civilize and educate" that population.
In that post, Metcalfe, herself of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa of North Dakota, pulls from The Arts of the Native American, a 1986 book by Native art specialist Edwin L. Wade, who reflected on the differences in mirror usage among Indians and European settlers around this time: In this view, it could be said Indigenous peoples, who likely used the image-reflective properties of pools of water as needed before Europeans showed up, turned the colonialist notion of mirrors inside out.

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