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nouninferiorism (uncountable)
- uncountableThe belief that some people are inherently inferior to others.
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Yet what seems to be an act of resistance to English cultural domination is little more than acquiescence in the imaginary binaries of inferiorism. The colonisers have already declared themselves to be rational, thoughtful, and cultured, in opposition to the colonised who are irrational, passionate, and primitive.
2004, Eleanor Bell, Gavin Miller, Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture & Literature, page 206
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