Why does post-colonial scholar Homi Bhaba argue that colonial discourse was ambivalent about the colonised?

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Portrayal of the colonised errs towards either a passive and conquerable subject or an irrational, untamed barbarian. This means that the colonial subject becomes consistently stereotyped

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Scholars did not travel to colonies and therefore could not establish an accurate picture of colonised peoples

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Post-colonial scholars were too focused on the colonising power rather than the colonised peoples

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The colonised did not make enough effort to have their voices heard

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