Comments on: On Colonialism http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2004/12/on-colonialism/ Nicolette Bethel's Blog Sat, 19 May 2012 16:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tigersfoot http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/2004/12/on-colonialism/comment-page-1/#comment-29739 Tigersfoot Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:46:13 +0000 http://nicobethel.net/testblog/?p=74#comment-29739 I agree with all you have said. But also believe that our immaturity in independence is due, in part, to a leftover of the slave mentality. I believe that our post colonial mentality is still in slavery...that we believe the 'foreigner' to be bigger, better, stronger than we...that they are our 'fathers' somehow, just as the colonial masters were our fathers in slavery...metaphorically speaking. And so the Bahamian population looks to the Government of the day to take care of matters, without believing themselves to be worthy of involvement, the Government of the day does exactly the same thing to look to our neighbours as the 'fathers', or the model, instead of developing our own model. we need to break free of this mental slavery in order to truly command our own sovereignity. I agree with all you have said. But also believe that our immaturity in independence is due, in part, to a leftover of the slave mentality. I believe that our post colonial mentality is still in slavery…that we believe the ‘foreigner’ to be bigger, better, stronger than we…that they are our ‘fathers’ somehow, just as the colonial masters were our fathers in slavery…metaphorically speaking. And so the Bahamian population looks to the Government of the day to take care of matters, without believing themselves to be worthy of involvement, the Government of the day does exactly the same thing to look to our neighbours as the ‘fathers’, or the model, instead of developing our own model.

we need to break free of this mental slavery in order to truly command our own sovereignity.

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