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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 18, 2023, 12:20 am
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But the point is that none of those in control of the IMF are
WNs! The IMF is part of what WNs call "globalism":
HTML https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/08/25/review-the-blackening-of-europe-by-clare-ellis/
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> Ellis dissects the ways in which American imperialism,
international finance, and monopoly capitalism influenced
post-war European diplomacy and economic recovery strategies
(mainly the importation of supposedly “temporary” foreign
labor), and links it to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and the creation of global institutions like the United
Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank,
and NATO — all of which “influenced the opening of Europe and
Western nations to non-European immigration from the Third
World.”
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 19, 2023, 10:18 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/philippines-bans-american-traveler-life-051047348.html
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> Anthony Laurence, 34, was refused entry and put on a blacklist
permanently following his allegedly “disrespectful” behavior,
the Philippine Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Norman
Tansingco said in a statement last week.
>
> Laurence had flown into Ninoy Aquino International Airport in
the capital city of Manila from Bangkok, Thailand, via an Air
Asia flight on November 7, according to the statement.
>
> According to Philippine authorities, upon his arrival, he
allegedly “showed disdain” toward one immigration officer when
he was reminded to fill out an online travel form and tossed his
passport and mobile phone at another.
> ...
> Immigration Commissioner Tansingco said in his statement that,
“After verifying [Laurence’s information] in our system, the
officer discovered that the passenger had keyed in a made-up
address in the Philippines, did not include his full name, and
inputted profane words in his entry.”
> ...
> “Such behavior is not only disrespectful but also undermines
the efficiency of the system,” the commissioner said.
>
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Woke comments:
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> Can anyone imagine how he might treat the people who come in
contact with him in the service industry?
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> That's their White Male Privilege Supremacist attitude at
work.
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> Bet you that dude votes for Republicans.
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> tRUMP supporter
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: antihellenistic
Date: November 29, 2023, 10:42 pm
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Recall on Neo-Colonialism definition, by Kwame Nkrumah
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> A key theme in the study of postcolonial Asia and Africa has
been the extent to which the end of formal empire did or did not
bring about true independence and freedom for the formerly
colonized. In 1965 Kwame Nkrumah published Neo-Colonialism: The
Highest Stage of Imperialism, a ringing denunciation and
analysis of the former colonial powers’ continued influence on
African and non-Western affairs. In Neo-Colonialism Nkrumah made
it clear that national independence was only the beginning of a
long struggle for true colonial liberation, that even without
formal colonial rule the structures of imperialist domination
remained largely intact. In Nkrumah’s Marxist analysis the
ultimate world struggle took place between rich and poor
countries, which represented a much more insidious form of
colonialism: “The neo-colonialism of Today represents
imperialism in its final and perhaps most dangerous stage . . .
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is
subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the
outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its
economic system and thus its political policy is directed from
outside . . . Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather
than decreases the gap between the rich and the poor countries
of the world.”113 As Nkrumah and many others realized, the
struggle to make viable, independent nations free of outside
control, especially control by international capital and the
former colonial powers, went far beyond raising a new national
flag.
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The example :
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> In practice, the former colonial powers continued to wield
significant economic and military influence over their former
colonies, especially in Africa, after granting them formal
independence. In the Congo, for example, Belgian firms retained
control of the bulk of the country’s lucrative mining industry
well after the end of that nation’s crisis of independence.114
In the postwar era, Britain became noteworthy for peacefully
granting its former colonies national independence, but this
often went along with economic dominance of the new national
economies by British financial institutions and multinational
companies. During the 1950s and 1960s Britain’s Commonwealth of
Nations helped link the economies of the former colonies to
London, and after Britain joined the European Union in 1972 it
continued to retain special economic ties to its former empire.
Such ties were often subtle, and for the most part the British
did not intervene militarily in Anglophone Africa after
independence. Nonetheless, they ensured a continued British
presence in its former colonies that transcended the granting of
formal sovereignty to the empire.115
>
> France played a much more direct and powerful role in its
former colonies after the mid-1960s. In 1958, in the context of
the crisis produced by the Algerian war and the collapse of the
Fourth Republic, France held a referendum in its African
colonies offering them either continued association with (and
aid from) France or immediate independence. With the signal
exception of Guinea, all the colonial subjects voted for the
former.116 Two years later, however, faced with increasing
African demands for independence, the government of Charles De
Gaulle decided that the days of direct colonial rule in Africa
had come to an end. In 1960, as a result, France granted
independence to no less than fourteen colonies in sub-Saharan
Africa. French officials shuttled from one colonial capital to
another, lowering the French flag and hoisting that of the new
nation. By the time Algeria achieved its freedom in 1962, the
French Empire in Africa was no more.117
>
> That hardly spelled the end of French economic and political
influence on the continent, however. Even more than Britain,
France retained considerable influence over the new governments
of its former African colonies, a phenomenon often referred to
as Françafrique.118 In 1960 De Gaulle appointed Jacques
Foccart, a veteran of the Gaullist resistance during World War
II, special adviser to the president in African affairs. Foccart
constructed a special office in the Élysée Palace, removed from
parliamentary oversight or control, and used it for most of the
rest of the twentieth century to direct French involvement in
African affairs.119 Foccart’s office directed covert payments to
African leaders to ensure their loyalty and compliance, and also
financed secret wars against insurgent forces that threatened
French interests. For example, French forces waged a secret war
in Cameroon, overthrowing Marxist insurgents and ensuring the
establishment of a compliant independent regime in 1960.120 More
generally, France included its former African colonies in a
financial union called the franc zone, opening them to
investment by French companies and in effect subsidizing
France’s economy. France also signed agreements for technical,
cultural, and military cooperation with most Francophone African
states and sent technical advisers, teachers, and other experts
to Africa to promote French culture and politics.
>
> Perhaps most strikingly, France intervened militarily time and
time again in Francophone Africa. The French retained garrisons
with thousands of soldiers in its former African colonies and
used them to prevent challenges to French interests. Throughout
the late twentieth century France maintained large military
garrisons in Francophone Africa, frequently deploying their
troops across the region. Between 1960 and 1995 France
intervened thirty-five times in African conflicts, usually to
prevent challenges to allied regimes. For example, in 1964
French paratroopers landed in Libreville, the capital of Gabon,
to defeat an attempted overthrow of that regime. French
interventions sometimes took place outside Francophone Africa.
In 1977 and 1978 France intervened in the Congo to protect
dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, a strong defender of Western
interests in Africa. The fact that these interventions usually
occurred at the invitation of a local ruler did not contradict
the fact that as a general phenomenon they challenged the
reality of Francophone African independence, independence which
seemingly had to be defended time and time again by a white
man’s army.121
>
> The particular issue of French military intervention in
Francophone Africa relates to a broader question, that of the
relationship between independence and democracy in the
postcolonial world during the late twentieth century. As this
study has shown, most colonial territories in Asia and Africa
had been controlled by democratic European states, and many of
them had inherited the structures of formal parliamentary
democracy from their imperial masters, structures that in many
cases the colonized used in the struggles for independence.
Frequently, however, these structures did not endure into the
postcolonial era. Instead, all too often colonial rule gave way
to military dictatorship. This was especially true in Africa; as
we have already seen, the independence of the Belgian Congo led
quickly to the overthrow and assassination of democratically
elected Patrice Lumumba and the dictatorship of Colonel Mobutu.
In February 1966 Kwame Nkrumah, perhaps Africa’s greatest
independence leader, was overthrown by a military coup d’état
widely rumored to have been facilitated by the American CIA.122
When Algeria became independent in 1962, FLN leader Ahmed Ben
Bella established an authoritarian regime, only to be overthrown
by the army three years later.123 By the end of the 1960s
virtually all of the newly created African states had become
military dictatorships.
>
> Although this pattern occurred most noticeably in Africa,
other parts of what had become known as the Third World were
certainly not immune. Although the Middle East had been a major
pioneer in the revolt against colonialism after World War II,
the area soon fell under the control of a mixture of monarchies
and military regimes. Latin America, which had largely freed
itself from colonial rule in the early nineteenth century,
remained dominated by military dictatorships in the late
twentieth century, often aided by the neocolonial influence of
the United States. The armed forces seized power in Brazil in
1964, in Argentina in 1966, and in Chile in 1973, among other
examples, and in general, whether or not it was actually in
power, the military remained a powerful political force
throughout the region.124 The main alternative to military rule
in the postcolonial Third World was not liberal democracy but
rather Marxism. Communist regimes in Vietnam, Cuba, and above
all China, for example, had often successfully challenged the
monumental Freedom Now? 285 problems of poverty and land reform
in the postcolonial world, without making freedom a priority.12
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Source :
White Freedom The Racial History of an Idea Tyler Edward Stovall
2021 Princeton University Press page 296 - 300
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 3, 2024, 9:04 pm
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HTML https://www.reddit.com/r/sex/comments/181ce1f/my_white_boyfriend_wants_me_to_wear_a_qipao/
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> My (25F, Asian) boyfriend (31M, white) of 6 months have been
asking me to wear a qipao (traditional Chinese dress) during sex
for weeks. He said it has been a fantasy of his for a while. Now
I know everyone has different fantasies and I never judge, and
personally I don't really have a problem doing it for him, but I
just can't help but think if he sees me as a fetish because of
my race. I feel like if I ask him directly he will just deny it
or he may get defensive, which doesn't go anywhere. I think we
have a healthy relationship and our sex life is amazing
otherwise. Does anyone have similar experience in this or have
any insight? Much appreciated!
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Best comment:
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> Time to get him a colonial judges wig.
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Related:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg13312/#msg13312
No prizes for guessing which version the above colonizer wants!
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 18, 2024, 11:24 pm
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It's OK for Blackwater to be "white":
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHXzrtmHrJ8
I predicted this long ago.
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 26, 2024, 9:05 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/Soulful1865/status/1762128420907987328<br
/>(video at link)
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 29, 2024, 7:30 pm
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68421131
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> Organiser of 'white party' in Sri Lanka apologises after
backlash
> ...
> The event's advertisement specified a white dress code, but
also had a line saying "Face control: White" - which was largely
interpreted to mean the event was open only to white people.
>
> An organiser later said the event was "a bad idea", adding
that it was meant to bring together expatriates.
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There of course exist "non-white" expatriates in reality. But it
is also well known that neo-colonialists use "expatriates" as a
coded term for "whites" (even referring to non-expatriate
"whites" as "expatriates" ::) ).
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> The party, which was due to take place last Saturday, was
cancelled.
>
> Backlash against the event was swift, with many on social
media calling it "disgusting" and "racist".
> ...
> The organiser as well as the owners of Sarayka Lounge are
believed to be Russian citizens.
>
> Rupasena Koswatta, president of an Unawatuna entrepreneurs'
association told BBC Sinhala many Russians have moved into
Unawatuna, a coastal city just 5km (3.1mi) from Galle, in the
last two years.
>
> Many of the tourism businesses there are now owned by Russians
in the area now known by many as "Little Moscow".
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When will Sri Lankans start massacring them?
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 10, 2024, 9:43 pm
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He also looks like what we would expect.
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 28, 2024, 6:07 pm
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Continuing from:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonialism-as-viewed-by-westerners/msg25691/#msg25691
HTML https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/28-1.jpg
HTML https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/26-2.jpg
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Re: Western Neo-Colonial Mentality
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 7, 2024, 8:00 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuyCpwpIkw
(I hardly need to add that Western civilization is also to blame
for the heat in the first place.)
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