What does Homi Bhabha mean by "projective past?"?

Philosophy is of course a difficult and tough subject and without the help of a guide it is difficult to know such theories.

It means

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The rhythm of the Sorrow Songs may at times be swift - like the projective past - at other times it may be slow - like the time-lag. What is crucial to such a vision of the future is the belief that we must not merely change the narratives of our histories, but transform our sense of what it means to live, to be, in other times and different spaces, both human and historical.

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Perhaps he is unduly concerned with the contributatory influence of Euro-American/Japanese/Chinese civilization on African and other traditions.

There is a balance of justice regarding "reinventiing the wheel" (i.e., "cultural appropriation" of Euro-American et al science and insight, by other societies), and nurturing and championing meritorious, authentic, regional cultural traditions.

Some concerns re postcolonialism is perhaps too often "merely academic." That which is meritorious is often "world class" and "intercultural," and "coca-colonization," so decried by Lacan and Derrida, is less a single category of "good and bad," hence, case-by-case discernment, not the error of overgeneralization, is well re this general issue.

Related: "Affirmative Action around the World: An Empirical Study," by Thomas Sowell http://tsowell.com/affirmact.htm and also his "Black Rednecks and White Liberals," and Daniel Estulin's "Tavistock Institute."