Sentence examples similar to colonial assumption from inspiring English sources

Things that were suppressed or unspoken in Dickens homosexuality, illicit sexual passion, flogging of prisoners, the rape of child-prostitutes, the abortion trade are unsentimentally exposed in this rewriting, as are Dickens's colonial assumptions.

A postcolonial lens thus invites healthcare educators to think more deeply about the colonial assumptions embedded within their teaching on topics of "culture", "race" and health inequities.

There's a huge post-colonial assumption that people in the global South can't decide to come and work in London.

Salih's vision of the North/West (as represented by the London metropole) vis-à-vis the South/East of the Sudan interrogates post-colonial assumptions regarding culture and nationhood.

So basically at the heart of these colonial grievances were assumptions about British rights and British liberties.

The monthly review meetings in municipal wards also help bind the middle class and poor -- to build a community, in short, strong enough to challenge a government imbued with both colonial and socialist assumptions that it knows better than the people.

"They [the anti-suffrage movement] used this assumption that colonial subjects were very patriarchal themselves and they wouldn't like it if women had the vote in Britain," says Dr Mukherjee.

It is based on the assumption that the colonial experience has had an enduring and multifaceted impact on the social, cultural and political process in both the colonial and the colonized societies.

On this subject we presume there are few who entertain dissimilar sentiments: the right to proclaim independence was unquestionably inherent in the people of that island, and there is not a doubt but that the colonial system, pursued since the assumption of the supreme authority of France by Bonaparte, provoked the severance at an earlier period than it would otherwise have taken place.

So often when these issues are discussed, the underlying assumption is a colonial one: these Africans and Afghans just can't help being corrupt, it's in their nature, the moment they emerge from their mothers they're asking for bribes.

Generating heated debate, Edward Said devoted a chapter of his book Culture and Imperialism (1993) to Mansfield Park, arguing that the peripheral position of "Antigua" and the issue of slavery demonstrated that colonial oppression was an unspoken assumption of English society during the early 19th century.