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PERSONAL REFLECTION: COLONIZATION AND DECOLONIZATION

Australia is one of the countries that was colonized by the Spanish and British empires. As such, their indigenous people had their share of the stages of colonization. From here, it was evident that when an indigenous nation or tribe is colonized, everything that they lived and worked hard for disappears.
The colonization history of Australia has always been marked with violence and conflict. Before the British came, the land has been occupied by the indigenous Aborigines that came from Africa and through South East Asia. They spoke many languages and dialects (Alfred n.d.). Due to this, they created Continue reading...

Introduction

At the turn of the XX - XXI centuries the most important problems facing the international community is the need to address the political, national and religious conflicts, which are often result in armed clashes. In such circumstances it becomes particularly important to understand the nature of the conflicts that threaten modern society. The roots of many contradictions are to be found in the past of developing countries, as well as in the interaction between different peoples with European countries. This interaction was most intense in the period of colonialism, especially in the last third of the XIX century, Continue reading...

Arab nationalism is secular ideology that asserts the existence of a single Arab nation, united by a common culture and area of residence (the Arab world), and putting one of its main objectives the removal of foreign (primarily Western) political and cultural influence in the life of the Arabs. This ideology has been widely developed during the reign of Egyptian President Gamal Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s. This ideology has rapidly seized the minds of the Arabs in the Middle East getting more and more popular in different spheres of the society of the Arab world and has Continue reading...

Three Article Reviews

Article One
Article One outlines the impact of post colonization. Decolonized peoples develop a post-colonized identity that binds them culturally to their former masters. In the article, Italian lyrics are shown to abound on a make believe Venetian canal in Las Vegas. Italy had colonized Venice in the past. However, after Italy left Venice, the latter has continued to be influenced benignly by the social power of Italy. As a result, the Italian language prospers in Venice and Venetians bear no grudges to anyone speaking Italian. This is indicative of a deeper post-colonial impetus: extolling what was purportedly good Continue reading...

The war in Vietnam is one of the largest military conflicts of the second half of the XX century. It has left an imprint on the culture of Vietnam and is very important for the modern history of the country, the United States and the Soviet Union, which played crucial role in it. The main point of the war was the struggle of the local government of South Vietnam with US support against local communist rebels supported by North Vietnam. The civil war began in South Vietnam. Later North Vietnam was embroiled in the war, and later received the Continue reading...

Introduction

The French Fourth Republic is also known as the republican government of France that lasted from 1946 and 1958, and was governed by its own fourth republican constitution. It is said that there are many similarities between the French Third Republic and the French Fourth Republic, and thus both republics had the same issues and problems. In general, this period saw the country grow in economic terms and the rise of social and political institutions which were destroyed during the Second World War (Fieschi, 2004). However, it is also said that this republic was quite unstable, and was unable Continue reading...