Colonization is a process that replaces indigenous peoples’ culture with those of the colonizer and puts in place institutions and mechanisms to perpetuate it. Colonization is not simply an act of taking over physical territory, it is also an act…
It is often the purpose of monuments to celebrate successes, and in doing so, to bring together the community. The issue with some is they present a single, positive narrative, and leave unsaid any negative consequences for other members of…
What is an explanation for our different interpretations of events? Why were once acceptable things now unacceptable? A key change might be broadly encapsulated in the shift from “Universality” to the more “Contextual”; the shift from a focus on universal…
How does our current notion of perfection apply to how we interpret history and its manifestations, such as monuments, place names, institutional processes, among others? In Western societies, historical measures applied to how events, people, were assessed included biblical criteria…
Over the past few posts I have referred to “perfection” or “sin”. What does perfection mean? Should we measure “perfection” in terms of the “absence of mistakes?” While some actions can certainly be characterized as “mistakes,” often the determination is…