“As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all.” HistoryHypocrisyColonialismWestern CivilizationPostcolonialismInternational DevelopmentWestern HypocrisyEuropean CivilizationWestern HistoryPost Colonial TheoryThird World Feminism Book:The cost of living Source: The cost of living
“Colonialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natural resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.” HistoryColonialismPost Colonial Theory Book:The Wretched of the Earth Source: The Wretched of the Earth