The postcolonial and the postmodern- Homi Bhabha

Third World countries that were previously colonised come together with their opinions to form postcolonial perspectives. Colonialism is often justified as modernity. Those that have been socially marginalized teach us the most enduring lessons. Culture extends outside the "high art", aesthetic mode and becomes an uneven, incomplete production of meaning and value.
Culture is transnational because cultures are displaces and moved. Cultures are translational because the signification of culture is complex. It is important to decode these cultural signs, specially because transnationalism makes them even harder to decode.
Postcolonial perspectives do not agree with the term "underdeveloped" and attempts to revise the point of view whereby Third World is in binary opposition to First World.
Postcolonialism forces us to rethink the limitations of a consensual liberal sense of cultural community. Different levels of identity overlap and intermingle. Culture becomes an uncomfortable practice of survival while it's being becomes a moment of pleasure.
Signs that differ in content produce incompatible systems of signification and engage distinct forms of social subjectivity to construct histories of discrimination and misrepresentation. Cultural difference becomes a sight of social crisis.