[6][3][4] C. K. Raju claims academic imperialism emerged thanks to racism among native colonial elites.
[7] Academic imperialism is blamed for "tutelage, conformity, secondary role of dominated intellectuals and scholars, rationalization of the civilizing mission, and the inferior talent of scholars from the home country specializing in studies of the colony.
"[6][3] In the modern postcolonial era, academic imperialism has transformed itself into a more indirect form of control, based on Western monopoly on the flow of information in the world of academia.
[9] Syed Farid Alatas lists the following six aspects of academic dependency:[10] Specific examples of academic dependency include the fact that most major journals are based in the Western countries and carry works by scholars located at Western universities; and that scholars in the Western countries study the entire world, whereas scholars in the non-Western countries focus on their own societies.
[11] Another example is the dominance of English language in the world of international academia.