content: From colony, became independent, maintained most practices of the colonists. We could have reverted to the brehon and old tribal customs, but having witnessed better ways to structure society we made our choices. Colonisation is just societies with superior structures dominating those without, where reason can be practiced the dominated will imitate those superior structures to the point they can no longer be d  5ee  ominated. Those that remain dominated lack that necessary reason IMHO.