Living a lie | Amandala Newspaper

The origin myth promoted by the “colonials” proclaimed that the most important event in Belize’s history was the defeat of one European empire of another over possession of a land that belonged to neither of them; that it was necessary to look outwards to the “mother country” to make sense of, and improve, the landscape; that Belizeans should be proud to be part of a great empire, even though they were a dependent and inferior part. – pg. 154, THIRTEEN CHAPTERS OF A HISTORY OF BELIZE, Assad Shoman, Angelus Press Ltd., 1994