The Effects of Colonial Mentality on Filipino-American Mental Health
By Kubo Guest Writers – By Joriene Mercado In a survey of San Diego public high school students, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a striking 45.6% of Filipino-American female adolescents have thought about committing suicide, which was the highest rate among all ethnic groups in this study (Wolf, 1997). Data collected by the Los […]
What Is a Colonized Mind?
England was once so proud of its colonial regime that it boasted, “The sun never sets on the British empire.” Today, colonialism is a bad word. It is fashionable to say we live in a ‘post-colonial’ world. The truth is the world continues to involve relations of domination and exploitation, under new names: “globalization,” for […]
Colonialism in Melanesia
Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/ 1906 – Australia assumes administration of British holdings in New Guinea. 1906 – Britain and France establish joint rule over Vanuatu, then called the New Hebrides. 1907/8 – Pablo Picasso purchases two New Caledonian wood figures. While African art has a stronger influence on modernist works than that of Oceania, Picasso’s personal collection eventually contains a […]
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