Colonial Hangover: The West’s Deep-Rooted Arrogance and the Coming Collapse

The world is still suffering from a colonial hangover, especially seen in UK and US governance, behavior, and global policies. The colonial mentality of the 18th century remains evident in how these countries speak, act, and try to influence others. The UK, in particular, often shows a stronger racial superiority complex, a leftover from the time when it ruled over vast parts of Africa, Asia, South America, and other regions.

This colonial mindset is also present in the way they have built international institutions after World War II—like the UN, IMF, World Bank, WTO, and WHO—all based on Western frameworks. These organizations were designed to promote Western values as "ideal", ignoring local cultures, histories, or civilizational models.

For example, in the Indian subcontinent, where the literacy rate was around 85% before colonization, English was suddenly imposed. This made everyone appear illiterate overnight. This is just one way how a Western template replaced existing, functioning systems. Today, former colonies still follow these imposed models—legally, politically, and socially.

The West’s governance structures were built not for people’s welfare but to rule over colonies. These structures are still in place and help explain why economic criminals or political fugitives from developing countries (like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Nawaz Sharif) find shelter in Western nations. Even Ayatollah Khomeini lived in France before returning to Iran.

This is a part of the West's diplomacy, where they protect criminals for future use as bargaining chips. This approach reflects the arrogance that still defines much of Western foreign policy. Politicians like Liz Truss even suggest how China should run its government—despite facing shortages of basic food items in the UK itself.

The US, under the current administration, has shown some improvement in this tone. However, Europe remains economically weak, especially post the Ukraine conflict, with major deindustrialization and still no change in attitude.

One major reason many urban populations in Asia, especially India, continue to look up to the Western lifestyle is the job-based economy. This job system emerged from 18th-century industrialization, where factories in Europe depended on raw materials stolen from colonies. The British also created a classroom education system designed to produce obedient workers, not creative individuals.

The result is a feminized, curiosity-killing, memory-based school model where kids spend 15–20 years inside classrooms, only to enter low-risk jobs. This creates a pipeline from classroom to company, promoting dependence rather than entrepreneurship.

Moreover, Western economies have long been funded by looting colonies for 350 years. In the last 50 years, they ran on the US Dollar reserve currency model, allowing them to print money and export inflation to the rest of the world. But now, with de-dollarization picking up—led by Asia and the Gulf—Western countries are being forced to face economic reality.

When this dollar privilege collapses, the global service sector, especially IT-based jobs, will suffer. Many urban Indians who admire Western lifestyles don’t realize that their weekend comforts and job security are being paid for from their own pockets—through this dollar system. Once this system ends, the massive education-to-job model will break too, and people will question why they were kept in classrooms for 20 years.

This Western format—of governance, economy, and education—was never designed for empowerment, only for control. As Western economies decline, the colonial frameworks they left behind will also come under question. The world may finally move toward self-reliant, enterprise-driven, and civilizationally rooted systems.

The real challenge of this decade is whether the world can break free from this shallow and arrogant structure, once the US Dollar’s artificial dominance ends.