Postcolonial states inherit colonial divisions that block formation of civic unity

Evidence

In the wake of the dismantling of the old empires, many new multiethnic and multicultural nation-states were created. However, they continue to reflect their prior conditions of existence under colonialism. These new states are relatively weak, economically and militarily. Many lack a developed civil society. They remain dominated by the imperatives of the early independence nationalist movements. They govern populations with a variety of different ethnic, cultural, or religious traditions. The indigenous cultures, dislocated if not destroyed by colonialism, are not inclusive enough to provide the basis for a new national or civic culture. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 314

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism connecting colonial legacy to the nation-building problem — carries directly into readings on how national identity is constructed and contested, a core Islamophobia scaffold. — connects to: British colonial rule created ethnoracial divisions where pluralistic communal life existed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 556