Indigenous people's world as unacceptable

In a manner of speaking total independence of colonized or formerly colonized worlds as such would be, according to Williams, “impossible but that cultural syncreticity is a valuable as well as an inescapable and characteristic feature of all post-colonial societies and indeed is the source of their peculiar strength“  To offer some help with understanding this would include defining “syncreticity.” ”Cultural syncretism” is the blending, adapting to, and pluralizing of multiple cultures into one.  Syncretism is believed to have happened in colonial worlds, but also many believe that the indigenous cultures have been squashed and paved over to the extent that it is impossible to recoup indigenous values, because of the capitalist overriding of culture. There is also the belief that a Marxist socialist revolution would be necessary to regain “freedom” for indigenous peoples. For some colonization is “a passing historical feature” (Ngugi)  Griffin states that “Some critics have stressed the need vigorously to recuperate pre-colonial languages and cultures” and that this is possible and fortunate for indigenous people who have relative independence. Griffin also points to how indigenous people who reach independence, and that there is “an appeal for a return to writing exclusively, or mainly in the pre-colonial languages has been a recurring feature of calls for decolonization” Frankly, I would say that it would be nice, but impossible to restore indigeneity of culture to a post-colonized world.  Colonization takes on so many functions of governing that its culture infiltrates and covers, mixes, and evaporates to an extent, a great extent, the beliefs, values, and languages of indigenous people so as to wipe-out the possibility of returning to pre-colonized states-of-being. With this said we must focus on  the meaning of colonization a bit. Colonization has iterations that, as Bhabha has pointed-out, include slavery, imprisonment, suppression, inculturization, and discrimination.  These are lasting effects on many people in the world. But, I would have to say that in the US at least there have been great gains and over-reaching (to push the colonization of media to depreciate supposedly hegemonic parts of the population) of decolonization in every facet of beliefs, behavior, and organization. The US is post-post-colonial, on the brink of retaliation against the former “hegemonic” peoples. In fact, the hegemony seems to have flipped.  What do you think about our present culture in light  of the changes over the first part on the 21st century?    

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