Decolonising series - Episode 1: What is decolonisation / decolonization?

Dr Ryan Arthur's gentle introduction to decolonisation

[philipdawes]

Thank you, that was a very useful and concise piece of education. A couple of questions based on interpretations, if I may.
1) Your first example: There is no example, in history, of a working, multicultural, national identity, only of attempted assimilation or segregation. If we all 'retreat' into our own cultural silo's, however granular you want to be in defining those, how will conflict and clashes be avoided, because humanity has proven itself to be seemingly incapable of tolerating 'difference'.
2) Second. Given the slow progress of humanity towards a future with better societal structures, if there are nuggets of something positive that can contribute to that progress mixed into a pile of dung, are they not worth plucking out, cleaning off and making use of? eg. most religious writing, can be used to justify both the best and worst of human behaviours.

(As a more general point, for me, something that cannot be defined, or given shape to, needs clarity and purpose, without either of those it just becomes an excuse to indulge in whims, however intentioned, beneficial or not).

[FlashdogFul]

Really interesting video. Recently the Nation trust along with many other British Charities said the British countryside was too white in a way that we would never accuse Nigeria or china as being too black or too Chineses or words to that effect, and that it needed to be decolonised from your video its not clear to me how you decolonised the British countryside which is mostly made up of the indigenous peoples of Britain, a term I know can be controversal when white people use it even though it is clearly appicable to the peoples of every other country give or take in the world. And just as many those cultures feel the history cultural imprealism of the west and try to protect their cultural history and idenity so the white people of Europe worry about the lost of cultural idenity in the wake of immigration. Perhaps a last comment; white people are told often that they can not know what it is like to be from another ethnic group (fair enough) and can not speak on it and yet everyone feels qualified to talk about the white expreance when they are not white I wondered what your thoughts where on that. There is losts more I would like to ask but I will leave it here. Thanks again for the video.