Essay On The Colonization Of African American Culture

The colonization of Africa has impacted the lives of Africans all over the world and still continues today ... All its centuries of slavery and colonization orchestrated by the Arabs at first, then by the Westerners, have left serious sequels, one of which is none other than "Cultural alienation". The direct consequence of alienation is the loss of cultural identity of this population, which is therefore forced to assimilate with that of its former settler. While the former settlers are extolling that colonization was the best thing that happened to Africa, they made it believe that Western culture was better than his own and therefore push it to hate his own and to think that his culture was the reason for his underdevelopment.

Culture

Culture plays a crucial role in social development; it is the basis of the potential of intellectual growth of regions and the building of consciousness and openness spirit of people. The culture is a basis for the realization of many educational functions, allowing to activate the different layers of society. Most Western have developed their society based on values cultural and knowledge. They used their culture has the center of gravity, a foundation. So why alienate Africans of their culture if the reason for colonization where to push them towards a greater

The main cause is that black feels obliged to forget himself to exist and to see himself recognize some dignity human. alienating him allows climbing in the social level, to appropriate this culture that is not his he serves as a social promotion. In effect, despite the end of slavery and colonization, the blackguard in mind that the white man is the one who succeeds in life, the one who holds the absolute knowledge and especially the power to decide who deserves or not to have a place of choice in society. In regards physical appearance, many tend to look like white people, by the hair straightener and by stripping the skin while ignoring the danger contained these products chemicals. Why the black man and woman with its ebony color and its afro hair would not be a beautiful person natural? Why feel the need to be more clear, with smoother hair and fine features? Media and Products cosmetics today are not a great help in this field but more and more people strive to make the black community accept that it must appreciate such what East in order to be respected. The hair takes a symbolic importance in Africa, the hairstyles of the time permitted sometimes to identify which company or region African came to a nobody. once captured slaves (male as female) suffered the shaving their hair to that they can not communicate anymore. More a loss capillary, it was above all a deprivation of identity to weaken and dehumanize. When