Colonial Ideology In Morocco

Michele Foucault, the French philosopher defines ideology as “based on the distinction between true statements about the world (science) and false statements (ideology) and the belief that the world helps us to decide between true and false statements” , between science and false statements (ideology). From this perspective, we can distinguish between what French colonialists claimed, and what has been really done in the reality. No doubt, what French authorities have done illustrates a general idea about the French colonial ideology that was conveyed especially to colonize Morocco. We have seen another methods of colonizing which the colonialist adopted, grasping the bad experiences, and benefiting from science as an alternative way of domination.
The colonial ideology obviously claimed that they were on a "civilizing mission" to lift the benighted "natives" out of backwardness to the new status of civilized French Africans. To achieve this, the French colonialist used the policy of assimilation , in which, they strengths education and francization some "natives", so that, would become evolved and civilized French Moroccans.
However, the French colonialist aware of a bad experience they had in Algeria, they realized that violence always produced violence. To avoid that, French colonialist conveyed a new strategy and special policy of …show more content…
The world had witnessed the duality of the West versus the rest, and binary oppositions; Master/Slave, Self/Other. The gaze through which European colonial authorities see other colonized countries was contemptuous gaze. They reduced their humanity and they claimed to be the civilizing people. This is just what generally colonial discourse carried, and this is the ideology that traces French colonialism in Morocco. It still sustains effects even after post-independence, in several fields including culture and