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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
I'm having a hard time embracing (ha!) the slow embrace argument if it doesn't factor in external forms of violence / oppression.
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Hence the second part of my post...
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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
For example, how were many African societies to embrace modernity when they were explicitly being oppressed, enslaved and disenfranchised?
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Modernity was viewed as an adversarial movement that more sharply defined boundaries between insiders and outsiders. It was not native, and the exacerbation of its Eurocentric roots served to reinforce the problem that it was so badly abused in a campaign to pillage Africa.