Psychological effects of colonialism … Puerto Rico is a colony!! In this day & age …
There is a highly developed literature regarding the psychological effects of colonialism.
Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth), Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed), Reinhold Niebuhr (Moral Man and Immoral Society), Eduardo Galeano (Open Veins of Latin America; Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World), Almert Memmi (The Colonizer and the Colonized), George Orwell (Animal Farm) and others have documented the mechanisms, and horrible effects, of colonialism on the human mind.
The term “Stockholm Syndrome” describes much of this colonial psychology…where the captive colony begins to identify with, and then embrace, the will of their masters.
A great deal of this is happening in Puerto Rico right now. For nearly a century, one politician after another has “embraced” the US and served their interests. We now have an incapacitated island: devoid of any real leadership, with no sense of direction, and a government on the edge of bankruptcy.
Puerto Rico is…
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