How Humiliating

I know we discussed this a little bit today in class but I thought I’d blog about public humiliation. A fanciful topic in the least that has consistently presented itself within the last 4 novels we have read. I was wondering why it seems to be a continuously emphasized issue within the memoirs of these colonized minds. Aside from usurping from numerous amounts of indigenous peoples their sovereignty and economic structures, colonization often resorts to public degradation of the local inhabitants as a means of forcing them into a more obedient state for subservience. In locales where individuals may become second class citizens in their own community, individuals on average I imagine, would begin to develop a heightened insecurity concerning their perceived image towards the external world. Their culture, their language, and in many cases their own personage, has been displayed back to them as a hindrance, as a vestige from an ignorant era. The impact of being in a constant insecure state of self awareness would leave an individual overly susceptible to humiliation. These memories of humiliation would conversely serve as less as a specific moment of spite in the comprehensive catalog of our memories, but more so lending to the overall depiction of self worth developed by the psyche. Colonization forces one to view how the ‘world’ views oneself, and in instances when the ‘world’ views oneself more negatively would leave a stronger psychological imprint.