Postcolonialist believe that there are more than one side to every story, the dominant side and the often the sides that are oppressed but will never told. We know the story of the colonizer, or also the oppressor, but the story of the colonized is often lost because they have been force to accept the ideas of the oppressors. When Westerners "discovered" uncharted lands they did one of two things, they sought out the natives or they looked for a place of permanent and future residency. The Westerners would then indoctrinate the savages because they came upon an ideology, "all races other than white were inferior or subhuman," (Cultural Studies 236).
The colonizers force their religion and their society on the inferior; any that do not agree are most likely killed. Chapter 10 of the Cultural Studies calls it an alternity, where the inferior “are excluded from positions of power and viewed as different” (236). They are not able to freely express themselves and are told to conform or die. This creates an animosity within the colony where the “others” and the colonizers share a hate for each other and if one chose to reach out to the other they are shunned from their own community. This colonization does not have to exist between races however, it is often through personal beliefs that people cannot or will not express due to the hegemony. A hegemony is the “dominant values, sense of right and wrong, and sense of self-worth” in a society or and community. There many that will not express themselves because they know that they are not socially accepted because of they are. Women had to speak out to achieve their equal rights, but this did not make many people happy. There are others that hide who they truly are because they do not fit in because they are different.
