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CMV: The topic of decolonization is an excercise in futility. You can no more decolonize a culture than you can unrape a victim of sexual assault. Once a culture is changed, it forecer carries some heritage of the event.

I've been hearing more and more on the topic of decolonization over the years. Every time I just can't help but feel it's a fantasy dream of people who don't understand how history works and cultures develop. I cannot think of a single instance where an oppressed culture undid the damage done to it by an oppressor, any more than I can find a victim of rape who has forgotten about the crime.

I much more see the usefulness in the Brazilian ideology of "anthropofagio", or cannibalism. The only way forward is to adapt to what's happened to you and make the context you're in more fruitful, using the technology, music, and culture of the oppressor to develop your own ideas and practices into a new chapter of your people's history. Trying to "go back to the way things were" is impossible. Your accents have changed, your foods have things not native to you, you have new words and new clothes. You can't erase this. You can't purify. You can only take your own practices and identities and ascribe to the mediums around you who you have become, not who you were, as a people.
gpt
Arguably what you've described is a form of decolonization. A lot of modern post colonialist thought is rooted in the foucaultian idea of knowledge-power: the task of the post colonialist is to deconstruct narratives rooted in colonialism and to reposition knowledge within indigenous traditions. So an example would be questions of what modernism is, since historically modernizing has meant becoming more western, are there other, non-western models of modernization?