page_title: Neocolonialism
section_title: Cultural theory
hierarchical_section_title: Neocolonialism / Other approaches / Cultural theory
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karte der EU – Überseeische Länder und Hoheitsgebiete (OCT) und die Gebiete in äußerster Randlage (OMR). Diese Karte zeigt den räumlichen Geltungsbereich der Verträge der EU gemäß Artikel 52 des Vertrags über die Europäische Union und Artikel 355 des Vertrags über die Arbeits­weise der Europäischen Union. Français&#160;: Carte de l’Union Européenne, en particulier les Pays et territoires d’outre-mer et les Régions ultrapériphériques. Cette carte montre la portée d’action territoriale des Traités de l’UE comme spécifié par l’Article 52 du Traité sur l’Union Européenne et l’Article 355 du Traité sur le Fonctionnement de l’Union Européenne. English: Map of the EU – Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) and Outermost Regions (OMR). This map shows the territorial scope of the Treaties of the EU as specified by Article 52 of the Treaty on European Union and Article 355 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
context_page_description: Neocolonialism is the practice of using economics, globalisation, cultural imperialism, and conditional aid to influence a developing country instead of the previous colonial methods of direct military control or indirect political control.
  Neocolonialism differs from standard globalisation and development aid in that it typically results in a relationship of dependence, subservience, or financial obligation towards the neocolonialist nation. This may result in an undue degree of political control or spiraling debt obligations, functionally imitating the relationship of traditional colonialism.
  Coined by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1956, it was first used by Kwame Nkrumah in the context of African countries undergoing decolonisation in the 1960s. Neocolonialism is also discussed in the works of Western thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Noam Chomsky.
context_section_description: One variant of neocolonialism theory critiques cultural colonialism, the desire of wealthy nations to control other nations' values and perceptions through cultural means such as media, language, education and religion, ultimately for economic reasons. One impact of this is "colonial mentality", feelings of inferiority that lead post-colonial societies to latch onto physical and cultural differences between the foreigners and themselves. Foreign ways become held in higher esteem than indigenous ways. Given that colonists and colonisers were generally of different races, the colonised may over time hold that the colonisers' race was responsible for their superiority. Rejections of the colonisers culture, such as the Negritude movement, have been employed to overcome these associations. Post-colonial importation or continuation of cultural mores or elements may be regarded as a form of neocolonialism.
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