Activity 1

• Subaltern – the suppression of expression of the lower and colonised classes – being dependent on European influences.
• Orientalism – refers to the Orient, in reference and opposition to the Occident; the East and the West, respectively. Edward Said said that Orientalism “enables the political, economic, cultural and social domination of the West, not just during colonial times, but also in the present.”
• Diaspora – a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale.
• Exoticism – the process of finding a unique cultural custom from a different culture that excited people from the western colonies.
• Mimicry – This is the practice of the people of the colonised imitate the customs (clothing, language, politics, education etc.) of the coloniser.
• Otherness – The way a group neglects or marginalises another group from society. Classifying the other group as “other” stresses the fact they’re inferior and as a result carries onto the way the represent others, in the form of stereotypes.

Activity 2

I think the 2013 film Belle (aka La Ragazza Del Dipinto) explores the themes of the idiom White Man’s Burden. The film is about an illegitimate daughter of a navy admiral that is trained and brought up by her aristocratic uncle and his wife. She grows up to abolish slavery in England. The film won the 2014 British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent film, the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture and the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture. Belle is based on a true story about Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and an African slave woman.