17. The Burden of the Colonial Mindset

<p>New&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/podcast/">#Podcast</a>&nbsp;Episode! 💜 🇵🇷Are we ever truly free from the chains of oppression? As people, as citizens and as women? A look into the experience of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/puertorico/">#PuertoRico</a>, case study.</p> <p><br> <strong>In this episode we explore:</strong></p> <p><strong><br> </strong>✨What is the colonial mindset?<br> ✨How internalized is the oppression within our education, economic, political and social orders and systems?<br> ✨How inferiority plays out on people and how double is the task to break free for women?<br> ✨Which beliefs, ideologies, behaviors do we allow to persist through time? Which shape our national and personal identity?<br> ✨Why the colony of Puerto Rico is different from other colonies and which similarities can we find in Chechnya and Georgia’s case?<br> ✨How macho culture still harms the Puerto Rican diaspora, where are the voices of women and why are males the ones enjoying the privileges of gender in the US?<br> ✨What is the process of breaking free from this toxic mentality?<br> ✨How many independent republics in Latin America are reproducing imperialistic perceptions of power?<br> ✨Can we truly call us free when we live and seek to thrive in social dynamics and structures that are inherently violent?<br> ✨Can we stop the pity against colonized people? Can we stop the judgement and start hearing, seeing, allowing them to be?<br> ✨How colonial is our relationship with gender violence? Are some types of feminism a new way of continuing the oppression?</p> <p><br> 💜Join us in this exploration and share with us your impression via social media @nataliabonillainc</p> <p><strong>Recommended books:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fannon</p> <p>The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi&nbsp;</p> <p>The Psychology of the Colonization, O. Mannoni</p> <p>Race, Gender and Culture in International Relations, Randolph Persaud &amp; Alina Sajed</p> <p>The Politic