Esperanto and Reverse Colonization

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One of the anxieties of the late twentieth century was “reverse colonization.” There is a classic paper on this subject called “The Occidental Tourist,” which looks at themes of reverse colonization in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Count Dracula’s aim is not only to munch on the dainty dainty neck of Lucy Westerna,[1] but to gain dominion over the West. The count is, after all an Eastern European nobleman.

It wasn’t Dracula alone. Several years ago, I took a class called “Turns of the Century” which looked at, in part, how during the (approximately) twenty years with 1900 at their middle, certain themes predominated and paramount among these fears was that of “reverse colonization”: the fear that the once dominated would become the dominant.

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