"For too long, it was taken for granted that we would survive because we were Dutch; because Holland would take care of us. In our ignorant innocence or innocent ignorance we overlooked the fact that they were, and historically are, the rulers and we the ruled ones, and that power never renders itself; it has to be conquered, if not by sword then by the mind. And we neglected the mind. We have not studied our rulers well enough, otherwise we would have known that we were programmed to think that we are not programmed; that if we looked the other way long enough and denied the existence of colonialism it would automatically disappear. We forgot that we were trained not to see colonialism as colonialism."
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Language is More Than Language in the Development of Curaçao, 1999
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Joceline Clemencia
Joceline Clemencia (30 November 1952 – 30 May 2011) was a Curaçaoan writer, linguist, feminist and independence activist.
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