... are: the murder ofWilson Pinheiro and Francisco “Chico” Mendes in the Amazon rain forest, the massacre of Father Nery Lito Saturand several others in the Philippines, and the public hangingof ... toward the non-core countries. Basically, insti-tutionalized discrimination refers to the policies of the domi-nant institutions in the core and the behavior of individualswho control these institutions ... peripheral indigenous tribes. The originof internal colonialism in a country such as Nigeria involved the skillful, strategic pursuit of political dominance by the numerical majority following the independence...