What are Nativism and Going Native?| Postcolonialism| Postcolonial Theory| Postcolonial Concepts   

In this episode I have combined soundtracks from two previously published videos so that the you can learn about Nativism and Going Native as two distinct and separate terms.  

Nativism: In postcolonial theory, nativism refers to the political and cultural retrieval, or attempts at it, by the colonized natives to assert the claims of their own culture against the one introduced by the colonizers. This retrieval is mostly seen as a sort of strategic essentialism and can often lead to puritanical interpretation of history. By and large, the term has a negative connotation. 

Going Native: Going native was used as a pejorative term to point to any Europeans wo, while living in the colonies, adopted the customs and habits of the natives. By far the most striking example of someone going native can be found in the character of Kurtz from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."