“There is is still the idea today that the history of colonisation is peripheral and not part of the national narrative ." “In secondary school, colonial questions are widely tackled, but they are diluted in broader themes, where they appear as secondary sequences.”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51