Key Issues/Debates with Post Colonialism (Neo Colonialism)

A key issue and debate for Post Colonialism is the fact that Colonialism hasn’t completely disappeared from society. The term is called neo-colonialism. A term often applied to the economic situation of many former colonies after political independence has been secured. A policy whereby a major power uses economic and political means to perpetuate or extend its influence over underdeveloped nations or areas. Neo-colonialist interpretations of economic development in the Third World suggest that, as a budget-saving and humanitarian act, political decolonization nevertheless left in-tact the West's monopolistic control over the production and marketing of goods in the former colonies. By using international law, corporate property rights, and the power of major commercial banks the former colonial powers could retain economic influence and control over their former dependent territories.

In sports this is apparent through the people who own the institutions tend to be white upper-class men. They control everything and if you notice there tends to be a lot of actual athletes who are ethnic minorities. Neo-colonialist theorists argue that these athletes are used to bring money from where they are from. A prime example of this is Ji Sung Park, the Manchester united midfielder who sells a lot of shirts in the Far East. While the fact remains he hardly plays, it can be used as an example of how Colonialism still exists to serve the interests of the upper class so that they make money.

Kwame Nkrumah argues that Neo-Colonialism is the Last Stage of imperialism. Marxists are the ones who argue that Post Colonialism hasn't completely gone from society and it's made to seem gone but in reality it's still present. This is study is important in my study because it looks at if there is a distinction and with this theory it argues that white people still own ethnic minorities is society to a small extent, the extent that managers are white people and chairmen’s are as well.