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I plan to pursue my academic interests at USC by learning about how former French and English colonies were colonized and how they can overcome their neo colonial oppression. Since I have been studying African and African American Studies and French, I’ve learned that detrimental systems of neocolonialization and a second colonization by China are subduing developing countries. By attending USC, I can thoroughly analyze the patterns of colonization in western countries like the United States and Canada versus the colonization of African countries and slave colonies. With France and England being world powers for centuries, they were very prosperous in colonization but they chose to govern their colonies very differently. The English used indirect

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