post-colonial

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of men into "us" (Westerners) and "they" (Orientals). For such divisions are generalities whose use historically and actually has been to press the importance of the distinction between some men and some other men, usually towards not especially admirable ends.