On May 7, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Do you see honor as a way for
> colonized people to maintain some sense of worth?
Yeah. It was purely speculative, but I was wondering if a hypersensitivity about honor on a personal level is a compensation for external humiliations. Purely on the basis of received stereotypes, it seems that Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures are very honor-centric. Isn't the anticolonial literature full of imagery about how being colonized is emasculating, and kind of akin to, um, anal penetration?
Doug