[1] According to anti-colonial activists, the German colonial past was long erased within Germany.
However, Germany has begun to address aspects of its colonial legacy in Namibia, Cameroon, Togo, Rwanda and Burundi.
According to the Danish sociologist Mette Evelyn Bjerre, "colonial amnesia is strong in the Nordic countries" and many Nordic people believe they were "mere bystanders to European colonialism and slavery and therefore do not have a racialized view of the world."
[3] Dean Itsuji Saranillio, a Filipino-American academic from Hawaii, has criticized the colonial amnesia of the "Filipino settler" community in relation to Native Hawaiians.
[4] The Israeli Arab-Jewish writer Ariella Azoulay has characterized the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as part of the Palestinian struggle against the "structural colonial amnesia" of the Israeli state and the Zionist movement.