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The Colonial MentalityProject
The Colonial Mentality
Project


Principal
Investigator


Biography

Curriculum Vitae

The Book

Dr. E.J. R. David in the News

Research Assistant

Mental Health Implications
of Colonial Mentality


Personal Stories of
Colonial Mentality


The Colonial Mentality Scale

C.R.E.a.M.S.

E.J. David's Pilipino
Word of the Day Series


The Colonial Mentality Project
The Psychological Study of Colonial Mentality Among Filipino Americans

Click here for Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology - The Book



��little by little they lost their old traditions, the mementos of their past; they gave up their writing, their songs, their poems, their laws in order to learn by rote other doctrines which they did not understand, another morality, another aesthetics different from those inspired by their climate and their manner of thinking�degrading themselves in their own eyes; they became ashamed of what was their own; they began to admire and praise whatever was foreign and incomprehensible; their spirit was dismayed and it surrendered to�this disgust of themselves� � Jose Rizal, Philippine National Hero

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