Personal Description Theory of Characteristics

the culture are conditioned to become a single hybrid identity. In this case, hybrid identity appears in ambivalent situation like what is described by Robert Young. Hybridity is making one of two distinct things [...] Hybridity thus makes difference into sameness, sameness into differences, but in a way that makes the same no longer the same, the different no longer simply different. [...] Hybridity thus operates within the same conflictual structures and as contemporary theory. Both repeat and reproduce the sites of their own cultural production whose discordant logic manifests itself in structural repetitions, as structural repetition. Young, 1996: 25-26. Young shares the same view with Bhabha that the concept of hybridity is always in constant progression. Hybridity also shows the relationship of the colonial influence imposed by the colonizer and the resistance shown by the colonized. However, the attempts to set a certain stadard toward another culture cannot be achieved without being influenced by elements of other cultures. Therefore, the purity of one culture can never be achieved and maintaned.

C. Colonialism and Postcolonialism in Zimbabwe

Before the arrival of British commissioners in 1880s, Rhodesia was called South Zambezia. It used to be ruled by a powerful Matabele tribe headed by Lobengula, the King. South Zambezia was a country with high-quality lands and great gold mines, as an attractive site to be conquered by the European powers. Portugal was the first European country to raid South Zambezia, but it was only after 1888 that South Zambezia faced invasion from Britain Sylvester, 1991: 7. Cecil Rhodes, a British millionaire signed a contract with Lobengula and began commerce in South Zambezia. Based on the treaty with Cecil Rhodes, the indigenous rulers agreed to avoid making another treaty with the other European countries without confirmation of British.