Postcolonialism Notes

• Colonialism is the practice of a power showing control over weaker people or areas
• Post-colonial perspective - considering race, nationality, being the 'other' race
• Multicultural society - road signs in other languages, classes that teach different languages
• Benedict Anderson says physical appearance, religious beliefs, language and history are factors of similarity
• Liberty means freedom but America are launching missiles 
• Pursuit of happiness only seems okay for white americans
• County Borders - Some borders changed to change peoples political views e.g. Warwick became own county
• Thomas Friedman - Culture can be expressed through food people eat
• Pork was eaten as a clear sign of being christian - sign that they weren't jews or muslims 
• Subway Halal Meat - only sold in certain areas to make more profit, caused problems with people complaining that certain religions were trying to take over
• Sending Scottish soldiers to a war they don't agree with
• UKIP are above lib dems despite having racist views
• Avoiding Korea and going for places like Syria because they have oil and it will make more profit
• Torture people for vital information - waterboarding, forcefed during ramadan
• Expectations that Public Enemy should be positive role models even though they're only popstars
• Western Superiority - Only reported that British people were affected in accidents, other cultures were ignored
• America - globalisation of the world 
• Every high street has been taken over by American chains - mcdonalds, Nike, KFC
• Films all American/British, tell stories from Western Perspective
• Globalised market
• Globalisation is countries that sell products internationally e.g. Nike, Mcdonalds
• Westernisation - Selling product but promoting Western ideologies, 'west is best', sell products to promote capitalism - Mcdonalds in budapest promotes American Dream
• promote English being main language, speak to people in other countries like they're dumber for not speaking english, we should respect someone elses culture if we're in their country
• Idea that we'll all turn into some kind of america