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I really think the colonial mentality (both colonizers’ and colonized minds) is a mental illness. It should be treated with the seriousness we reserve for things listed in the DSM. There should be yearly updates building on the work of Franz Fanon...

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...who studied colonization in the 1950s as a psychological problem. At its root, the colonial mentality is an obsessive drive to dominate, control, and subjugate everything and extinguish all life: nature but also the spirit of people.