The colonial mind

Both Edward Said and Syed Hussein Al-Attas have explained the colonial mind which continues to guide writing in this country. The latest proof of this is in an article in the magazine Penang Economic Monthly in which the author says that the All Malaya Council of Joint action failed because among other things "the Malays were unwilling to trust the non-Malays." To say that the British war to crush the opposition formed by the solid unity of the many political organisations to ensure their survival aided by the dollar earning rubber and tin was a "failure of the Council" is an outright lie serving the propaganda of colonial Britain. Sadly worship of colonial Britain still continues in this country.