The colonists and colonized are two groups that are at complete arms with each other. The colonists, who were wealthy, white foreigners, inhabited certain lands and enforced their capitalistic views on the people who lived there. These people were the colonized and were often referred to as “natives”. While the colonists lived in luxury and comfort, the oppressed colonized people were living in starvation. These colonists believed in the ways of the colonial system and were greedy compared to the colonized, as opposed to the colonized people, who believe closely in their customs and traditions.
The relationship between these two factions is extremely violent. This is very much due to the fact that the colonists came into the colonized people’s land and unjustly took over them, which led to oppressing the citizens within it. As Fanon states,” The violence which governed the ordering of the colonial world…this same violence will be vindicated when the colonized swarm into......
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