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2006

Colonialism has always been considered to be a malicious thing all along human history . Nevertheless , it always existed during long periods of time issuing new theories regarding its nature and its future . What is colonialism ? Is colonialism able to bring some positive points into colonized nation 's life ? A great deal of authors has been trying to answer these questions in their works and researches And it is rather well known that most of them have always characterized colonialism as a negative event . Due to some unclear reason

some nations consider themselves to be better than others . The colonized nations become victims of colonialists . J . Lowen in his Lies my teacher told me (1995 ) in the chapter Red Eyes ' says that the colonized Indians were despaired so much that they lost confidence in their gods and the priests destroyed the sacred objects of the tribe (p . 109 . Therefore , if colonialists made nations loose their beliefs in Gods that 's a really a significant reason to speak about colonialism as about vivaciously negative picture in human 's history

Jamaica Kincaid 's in her novel A Small Place ' describes colonialism in rather a particular manner . A very interesting point in her book is her appeal to the readers (1988 : .since you are a tourist , the thought of what it might be like for someone who had to live day in , day out in a place (Antigua ) that suffers constantly from drought .must never cross your mind (p .11 . Kincaid tries to show that colonialism can 't be good no matter when and where it is . The nation -colonialist can 't do better for the colonized people than they themselves can . Kincaid loves her Antigua - that 's why her book is full of some kind of unexplained sadness . One will no find some too abrupt and aggressive assaults against the colonialists . Precisely due to this points her vision of colonialism can 't be compared with the Loewen 's one in his Red Eyes ' from Lies my teacher told me . Kincaid expresses her opposition to colonialism rather in a bright manner but her vision of this problem is very humane . She recognizes that Antigua by itself had a range of problems before colonialists ' intervention : corruption (may be one of the main reasons of Antigua 's colonizing ) and misery were present in Antigua 's life without British intervention as well . She respects British culture . But Kincaid also points out that the Antigua had its own potential for future development . In 1976 Antigua became self-governing but the independence was reached in 1981 only . Kincaid couldn 't accept the educational system of Britain which was introduced in Antigua . She rejected all of Britain except literature . Kincaid was sure that it was not acceptable to convert the colonized country into the mirror reflection of the country-colonialist . She was sure that the native culture of Antigua was not less beautiful and especial than the British one . Precisely the theme of negative effects of colonialism became the...