Definitions
- COLONIALISM
- the act of one country taking control of another, first by military force/action then by occupying that nation politically, economically, socially and culturally
- POST COLONIALISM
- post colonialism is a theory that accounts for the social, political and cultural impact of colinialism on people. Post-colonialism discusses the continual representation of nonwhite people in media as ‘uncivilised’ or ‘dangerous’ and that white people/colonialists are their saviours
- DIASPORA
- people settled far from their homelands
- BAME
- Black Asian Minority Ethnic
- DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS (GILROY)
- The internal conflict experienced by subordinated or colonialised groups in an oppressive society
- CULTURAL ABSOLUTISM / RACIAL ESSENTIALISM
- CULTURAL SYNCRETISM
- ORIENTALISM (SAID)
- Orientalism is a book by Edward W. Said highlighting yhe idea of “Orientalism” to define the West’s historically patronising definitions of the East
- APPROPRIATION
- an adoption of one culture by another, often done by members of a dominant culture towards a disadvantaged minority group
- CULTURAL HEGEMONY
- the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society
- THE PUBLIC SPHERE (HABERMAS)
- THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING IN TERMS OF FAIR REPRESENTATION OF MINORITY GROUPS / INTERESTS
- the PSBG creates characters and programs that follow the ideologies of the ruling class, helping to uphold stereotypes and beliefs to the advantage of the ruling class