COLONIALISM: Colonialism is when a country seeking to extend or keep its power and authority over other people as well as territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance. when in the process of colonisation the colonisers may introduce their own religion, economics, and other cultural practices on indigenous peoples and try to set it as the new norm.
POST-COLONIALISM: Post-colonialism is an academic discipline which includes methods of intellectual discourse that use to analyze, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism as well as the human consequences that come from controlling a country and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native people.
DIASPORA: it is when a scattered population who originally came from a different geographic locale. When we look at it historically, the word diaspora was used to refer to the involuntary mass dispersion of a population from its original indigenous territories, for example, the dispersion of Jews from Egypt when they had to wander the desert for 40 years to escape enslavement from the Egyptians.
BAME: is a name that refers to Black, Asian and the minority community
DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS (GILROY): it is a term to describe the internal conflict experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society.
CULTURAL ABSOLUTISM / RACIAL ESSENTIALISM: Cultural Absolutism is the ideology that there are certain principles and sets of values that are objectively right or wrong in every context and according to cultural absolutism when we consider things universally it is considered free from cultural, historical, and social conditions. racial essentialism when looking at is as a belief in a genetic or biological sense which defines all members of a racial category.
CULTURAL SYNCRETISM: is when distinct parts of different cultures combine together to create something new. Culture is a wide category so blending can come in many forms, like the form of religious practices, architecture, philosophy, recreation, and even food.
ORIENTALISM (SAID): is the acceptance in the West of “the basic distinction between East and West as the starting point for elaborate theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, and political accounts concerning the Orient, its people, customs, mind, destiny etc.
APPROPRIATION: is when you take something like ideas, customs, or a style from a group or culture that you are not a member of and to then apply it to yourself.
CULTURAL HEGEMONY: domination or rule that is maintained through ideological or cultural means. It is mainly achieved through social institutions, which means those in power can strongly influence the values, norms, ideas, expectations, worldview, and behaviour of the rest of society.
THE PUBLIC SPHERE (HABERMAS): it is a safe place for people to talk about the government.
THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING IN TERMS OF FAIR REPRESENTATION OF MINORITY GROUPS / INTERESTS: their role was to reflect various community interests and news, as well as different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds to be all-inclusive to the audience.