colonizer

Because if you can’t make fun of colonizers, who can you make fun of?

For starters, their first colonizers were Russians.

And for those of you who don’t speak colonizer, “salvage” roughly means to “steal.”

See how the big fish stand in for the colonizers, and the concept of “devouring” the smaller fish represents the enslavement of the indigenous communities?

And there were forms of religious expression that challenged the Christianity soldiers and other colonizers had grown up with.

Especially because the clowns would often make fun of the European colonizers themselves.

And this is something really important about colonialism: Colonialism did not just shape norms and ideas in colonized communities; it also exposed colonizers to many different ways of being human and organizing human power structures.