This civilization doesn't scream out its superiority, it lets it seep in and enter the bloodstream. It subtly lets the 'native' know that it has the power to help him deal with the present and the future through its sciences, its dress code, its architecture, its food. I call it the slow and steady colonization of the mind. And, in the forefront of the colonizing process was the language.
'Ammi, it's not iskool, the word is school.'
- Excerpted from Ammi: Letter To a Democratic Mother by Saeed Mirza
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