This is from an essay in progress.
Colonial discourse is built upon a difference between the West and the rest, that is other.
It centres West as the dominant norm and situates the rest as its other. Colonial discourse constitutes its subjects as coloniser and colonised. They share the guilt. There need not be an administrative colonial power for this, the discourse is so strong that it suffices to justify colonialism which is no more administrative but virtual. Colonial discourse is very complex in nature and it has countless variations and versions.