A Deep Dive Into Decolonization - Part 2

"Decolonize Explained" with Dr. Bruce Gilley

Decolonization Deep Dive Part II. What decolonization does to society is fragments it into different mutually incompatible and mutually intolerant groups. Sometimes we use this word "balkanization," it comes from the Balkans, which is a part of southeastern Europe. In that part of the world, each of the different groups was governed by different sets of norms. None of them had the same legal system, none of them used the same approaches to marriage, none of them use the same approaches to science. And that kind of society was fundamentally prone to collapse, as happened in the society that had that form of organization, formerly known as the Yugoslav Republic, now a kind of mass of competing groups who never had to deal with the need for a shared language, a shared set of assumptions about how to organize society.