Subaltern – Describe someone as a low rank or class
Orientalism – The way the west views easten culture
Diaspora – The dispersion of people from their homeland
exoticism – Exoticism is a trend in European art and design, whereby artists became fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions, and drew inspiration from them
mimicry – When members of a colonized society imitate the language, dress, polotics and culture of their colonizers
Otherness – how minority or less powerful groups are positioned as inferior to dominant groups
Activity 2
Dances with wolves
This film presents the themes of Kipling’s poem ‘White Man’s Burden’ through the white American’s views of the Nativie American way of life. However the main concept of this film juxtaposes these themes by showing a white American embracing the culture and life style of the Native Americans. The white Americans do not understand why the main characters embraces their life style and maintain trying to infroce their culters and way of life on everyone. This eventually leads to the colonisation of the native americans.