Sentence examples for colonial mentality from inspiring English sources

It's a kind of colonial mentality.

"There is still the colonial mentality in Portugal," he added.

"Now I think Occupy has lost its colonial mentality.

The colonial mentality – let the world come to us – is spectacularly counter-productive.

It is the colonial mentality that led to poor "natives" being deemed less able to comprehend modern civilisational standards.

The essence of the colonial mentality is the belief that history is happening in some other place.

Colonial mentalities die hard.

His remarks – not aimed at any particular country – led the Ugandan Government to accuse Mr Cameron of showing an "ex-colonial mentality".

Although she was sometimes dismissively accused of a neo-colonial mentality, she had had no time for the low-calibre colonial servants who were sent to administer her island, and fought her corner with characteristic aplomb.

This dish exemplified the arrogance-cum-colonial mentality of the French kitchen that regards all other culinary traditions as lesser, and therefore to be played with in any way they see fit.

In his methodology for emancipating China from such a perceived dismal condition Hu Shih reflected a typical modern post-colonial mentality when he said: "My own attitude is that we must unreservedly accept this modern civilization of the West because we need it to solve our most pressing problems, the problems of poverty, ignorance, disease and corruption.