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Textbook scribblings: self/other authority/powerlessness advanced/backward white/colored beauty/lack thereof (ugliness) science(scientific)/superstition(superstitious) civilized/barbaric Christian(religious)/pagan own systems of language/native systems of language An important and recurring binary of self vs other, where, as above, the former is privileged over the latter. If you recall from Marxism, ideology is a set of ideas and beliefs propagated by a certain section of society (the dominant one, that possesses authority). This is done through control over discourse. The point is, the colonizers and the colonized made sense of or learned to make sense of their "self", respectively, in relation to one another (as, say, superior/inferior). Basically the colonizers were creating an identity for the "other" and imposing it through control and authority. Notebook scribblings: Adopt phase: postcolonial writer who adopts the Western way of writing ...