After watching Ruby Ibarra's spoken word, we talked about colonial mentality, then how it relates to the Four I's of Oppression:Ideological,Institutional,Interpersonal&Internalized. The four I's of oppression is basically the idea that one group is more superior, and it ends up getting shown through the institutions around us and interpersonally from society, which leads to us negatively internalizing ourselves. As shown in the picture, you can see how they all correspond and are connected with each other. With this in mind, I see this as the outcome of colonial mentality. With colonial mentality, we have the feeling as if we're not good enough, insecure, doubtful, and feel as if we have to change and conform to fit into our own modern day society. We can see it in everyday life how as minorities we are inferior, and it's shown through the media, our education system, the society around us, and so much more that as people we end up getting used to it and feel the notion of colonial mentality. We lose our own sense of culture as it gets replaced with American culture. And as a result we feel the internalized oppression and develop this idea of colonial mentality, that they are superior and we are inferior. -Mariah
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