A policy developed during apartheid that Minh uses to articulate the harmful nature of imposed difference. Separate development asks that “others” protect their cultural and ethnic values and ways of life within a borders space, utilizing a “separate but equal” mentality to justify such oppression. Through this, difference is enforced as a physical division that upholds the tools of the colonizer upon marginalized people (Trinh T. Minh- Ha 152-153).