What Is Coloniality?
The coloniality of power is a concept interrelating the practices and legacies of European colonialism in social orders and forms of knowledge, advanced in postcolonial studies, decoloniality, and Latin American subaltern studies, most prominently by Anibal Quijano. It identifies and describes the living legacy of colonialism in contemporary societies in the form of social discrimination that outlived formal colonialism and became integrated in succeeding social orders.
puritanical
practicing or affecting strict religious or moral behavior.
archaic
very old or old-fashioned.
decorous
in keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained.
he Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved
creating this utopia setting. people seem happy.
mundane
lacking interest or excitement; dull.