In this chapter, Tuhiwai Smith’s primary point is that the West’s promotion and establishment of its cultural superiority over other cultures was done at the expense of native peoples. She discusses how the West reinforced its dominance via imperial methodologies such as colonial education. In chapter 3, Tuhiwai Smith articulates how the West came to have dominance over other ways of knowing the world. What does she mean by “positional superiority”? Positional superiority of the West and Western Knowledge means that the ideas of the West and how those ideas were/are created (via western positivistic scientific methods) are superior to other ideas, namely those of indigenous people. In chapter 3, Tuhiwai Smith discusses the positional superiority of Western Knowledge.
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