Table 3
The colonizer's model of the world
| 1 | Europe naturally progresses and modernises. |
| 2 | Non-Europe naturally remains stagnant, unchanging, traditional, and backward. |
| 3 | The basic cause of the European progress in the “European mind.” |
| 4 | The reason for non-Europe's backwardness is a lack of that intellectual or spiritual factor. |
| 5 | The normal (natural) way for the progress or modernisation of non-Europe is by the diffusion of the innovative and progressive ideas of Europe. |
| 6 | The exploitation of the colonised compensates (only in part) the diffusion of the civilising ideas from Europe. |
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Source: Blaut J. The colonizer's model of the world. New York: The Guilford Press, 1993.
