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Examples Of Decolonization In America

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However, in this case and any other cases like America, the definition of decolonization is different than what Fanon is attempting to describe. There’s a difference between not being a colony anymore and the pure theory of decolonization, and this is why America is in both a colonized and a decolonized state. America at one point was a colony, and now it no longer is one; it is a sovereign nation. Thus, America by definition was decolonized. However, there are still existing power structures that Fanon criticizes apparent in American politics and culture, and the native body is still regulated and overpowered. While the colonizers replaced and abolished natives from certain lands, there was a choice in the end whether native people assimilated
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