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HAITI CASE STUDY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - the debt created by france to release Haiti to independence - 150 million Francs that were not paid off until 1947
        
        a constant struggle for Haiti as a country to not rely on the developed West - state of dependency
        
        the country has defintely been underdeveloped due to developed nations relegating them to a state of dependency (Andre Gunder Frank, 1971)
  - - - This was easier for the colonial power to do because it consistently categorised the 'Orient' through the use of degrading stereotypes - this was his main argument
        
        Said said that even after colonial rule ended, this colonialist thinking didn't go away, it just appeared in different forms in the early 20th century
        
        US emerged as a huge global power - and provided a clearly orientalist view of the world
        
        Said wanted academics and society to admit that racist, colonialist ideas had been supported by Western academic thinking and that one depended on the other
        
        Said showed that academic writing can be deeply connected to politics - and workings of colonialism and how the one fed the other
        
        to justify the Wests self-imposed status and a superior culture
        
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      - Connects with Haiti as a country that has entirely be subjected to orientalism, being described as a 'backwards' 'helpless' society with the only way of survival by aid and guidance from Westernised countries such as France and the US - even though the reason they cannot develop theirselves as a country is due to the history of the country, and the lack of independece and ties it has to its colonisers