From 2accde1a0eef36cfa0ab493b1abba645d1cc5147 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tatianamac Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:03:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updates heading levels --- 11ty/definitions/neo-colonialism.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/11ty/definitions/neo-colonialism.md b/11ty/definitions/neo-colonialism.md index 0c17c429..248c8ce6 100644 --- a/11ty/definitions/neo-colonialism.md +++ b/11ty/definitions/neo-colonialism.md @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ reading: the continued influence and impact of colonial-era ideologies and practices in a country or region by former dependencies, generally enforced by its own government and/or citizens as a lingering effect of [colonialism](/definitions/colonialism) -### Note +## Note Neo-colonialism is a modern and more pervasive form of imposing ideological and economic dominance on a country after it has been declared independent from its coloniser. The stealth nature of neo-colonialism can be traced to treaties, agreements, and ideologies that have been imparted from the oppressors onto the oppressed from previous dependencies. -### Impact +## Impact In most African nations that were colonised by the British empire, western countries' ideals are seen as civilized and the best representation of societal progress. Standards of living that are ancestral are often dismissed as uncivilised and unconventional, erasing what is often thousands of years of culture.