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noncivilized


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Adj.1.noncivilized - not having a high state of culture and social development

civilised, civilized - having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"

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Classic colonialism was carried out mostly by European rival nation-states disputing the control of "noncivilized" territories across the world (Wallerstein, 2004); otherwise, the core forces behind neoliberal globalization are the U.S.

[A] mystical mentality-that is to say an intellectual disposition that in itself may lead to absurd causes or interventions of occult forces, the most simplest phenomena such as the weather, accidents, birth, illness and death, luck in work, etc., The ideas of the noncivilized are over all things.

Medical and scientific discourse colonizes interiorized spaces by engaging in "Tropical thinking [which] superimposed its value-laden here/there view of civilized and noncivilized space on the geomedical and thus fixed disease in place" (Patton, Globalizing 38).


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