Geopolitics and Manifestations of Self-Hatreď
Taking all other factors as constant, nationals of countries previously colonialised - with a history of slave trade, and current characteristic underdevelopment - tend to demonstrate traits of self-hatred. Unlike those of early industrialized developed countries with sustained growth trajectories. With colonialism and slave trade, came an instilled sense of inferiority in colonies about given and indigenous identity, culture and society, as measured against the structures, cultures, and systems of colonial masters. Even after many decades of formal political independence from colonializers, former colonies may still be dependent on the means and measures of erstwhile masters for validation. As such, overdependence, identity crisis, low capacity development in the domestic economy tends to proliferate. These hamper domestic ability to scale up indigenous solutions for production and governance. Developing economies, whose agrarian and extractive sectors served as feede...