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Sentinelese and the Colonizer Mentality
The favorite term or excuse of the colonizer is that they bring “civilization” with them. Who wouldn’t want that?
What a Colonizer Wants
Civilization has various meanings solely dependent on the the group or individual using it. For the purpose of the colonizer, civilization is the mask worn as they tout their own “developed” nation. This is then brought to bear on an, almost always, minority group that is hereby decimated, while the few remaining are made to work for the colonizer; thereby making the minority dependent on the colonizer for their own survival. Colonizer refers to white people, in particular, but any person brought up in a colonized society can and do exhibit the colonizer mentality.
The colonizer comes in the guise of friendship: wishing to exchange ideas, religion and experiences. But the goal is and always has been control and power.
There are few groups left that haven’t been the victims of colonization. However, if we don’t ensure our voice is heard we may have a front row seat to the genocide of a group that wishes for nothing except to be left alone.
A Group Untouched
The Sentinelese are a group residing on North Sentinel Island near India and have lived, for the most part, in seclusion from the world. They do not have…