Got It! Wait... What? (ch11)

Honestly it feels like I've been reading the same thing for the last few chapters. This Cultural Studies isn't any different. It appears to me that in the '50s and '60s a whole bunch of critics wanted to come up with their own theories. So instead of looking at everything together and creating one good strong criticism, they did their own thing and used a lot of each other's ideas. We, as modern day critics, are forced to shuffle through them all and try to figure out the differences rather than the similarities, because the similarities are too many.
Back to Cultural Studies.
So, the first part basically sets up what post colonialism is; the study of culture's that have become the "Other" which is basically anyone who has been colonized by the British. The first part of this chapter forgets to mention that there are many other countries that have colonized and are still colonizing other countries. For example when the British came over to North America the Spanish, French, Scandinavians, Japanese, Chinese, and Russians, were already there. They were already teaching their culture and pushing their beliefs on the Native Americans. Granted yes, some of these cultures would be considered "white" but some of them would not, and they all have different philosophies and cultures. Bressler says that the main concern of Cultural Studies/Post Colonialism is "highlighting the struggle that occurs when one culture is dominated by another"(201). This can be any culture though, and shouldn't be stereotyped down to only the white male can colonize.
Basically what I got out of chapter 11 is this. When reading texts that were written by post colonials one should not judge their culture but learn from it. One must often switch up their approach with each individual text because it's such a broad subject. And like the previous few chapters; one can use pretty much any of the other criticisms to do the task of critiquing these texts.