Colonialist Representation and Stereotyping of the Colonized

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2.1.4. Colonialist Representation and Stereotyping of the Colonized

The colonized is represented in such way by colonizer through its manipulated knowledge which can not be taken for granted as the truth. It is mainly caused by the unbalance power relationship between colonizers and colonized, especially in the moment of ‘old’ colonialism expanded by the colonizer, which is dominated and determined by the colonizer Said, 1979: 40. In ColonialismPost-colonialism, Ania Loomba pointed out that: The colonial stereotyping description of the indigenous people is constructed by the projector that the ‘New World Natives’ are birthed by the European encounter with them, accordingly a discourse of primitivism surrounds them. They are constructed as savage, barbaric or degenerate, and regarded as barbarous infidels Loomba, 2000: 108. Loomba 2000: 47 also asserts Edward Said’s thesis in Orientalism about the European self conception as: colonized people are irrational. Europeans are rational: if the former are barbaric, sensual, and lazy, Europe is civilization itself, with its sexual appetites under control and its dominant ethic that of hard work. Elleke Boehmer in ColonialPostcolonial Literature tells the colonial projection of the indigenous peoples as innately degenerated, degraded, barbarian, and natural Boehmer, 1995: 21. Boehmer formulates that this stereotype reproduction has always come with the superiority of an expanding Europe, and to distinguish its hegemony, whereas colonized peoples were represented as lesser: less human, less civilized, and child or savage, Wildman, animal, or headless mass. It is caused by unbalance power relationship between Eroupean as colonizer and the colonized Boehmer, 1995: 79. European evaluative stereotyping of this other peoples as irrational, barbarian, Indian, and animal-like. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 15 From the representation above, there are dichotomist representation between White and Other created by White. We can see that White as colonizer represent other as savage, infidel, bad, and uncivilized. Meanwhile, White represents themselves as civilized and the best one. Then, the aim of their colonialism is to civilize Other that they considered as uncivilized.

2.1.5. Abrogation