Does Post-Colonialism apply today?

Of course!

Presence of Post-colonialism is existent in a lot of ways. We may present the idea of Black-skin – white masks by blabla. Or brown skin –white masks. With our over-exposure to the American life-style we have been embedded with the idea of foreign is better. With the English language representing a rather elitistic presence, former colonies such as ours are then compelled to propagate such cultures. The reasons are obvious; it gives out a sense of refinement and a feel of superiority over our less fluent countrymen. Integration and or hybridization as stated by Homi Bhabha represent a more impirical evidence of post-colonialism. Integration of two cultures, a perfect example would be taglish, it is quite interesting as to how the tagalog dialect or quite a number of the dominant dialects in the Philippines integrates English within their sentences. Another is the Spanish language which has integrated itself well into Filipino that it is nearly indistinguishable amongst Filipinos who uses it. As stated by Bhabha, Hybridization does not occur by choice but rather, it occurs naturally due to continued exposure towards the said culture. Thus affecting quite a number colonized country into lacking a sense of oneness of their culture in purity.  We could also see the post-colonialism with the idea of Edward Said in Orientalism which explains the embedded idea that anything western is superior to the oriental, or in our case the oh so famous colonial mentality. The Book blackskin-white mask further strengthens that claim. With the author being black himself and is exposed to racial discrimination, he was raised within the French life-style wherein he have grown to believe or made to believe with the idea of that to be black is bad and to be white is good in more than physical aspects. Black people then gets low-self-esteem because they themselves believe that them being black makes them inferior and that in order for them to be socially acceptable they then have to wear white-masks. Similar cases have occurred to us Filipinos, twice actually, first with the more than 300 years of occupation of Spain and the euphoric American lifestyle we have grown to love.