thoughts on postcolonial theory

Postcolonial theory stems mostly from British colonies and the aftermath of being the colonized. The effect is that the colonized has to find identity. Should they return to the old ways or become what my Postcolonial Literature teacher calls, "Little Brown Englishmen?" The group that presented these ideas showed pictures of Ghandi the colonized and Ghandi the visionary.
Britain wanted to use these colonized peoples as translators to spread the word and reach more colonized people. Spread the gospel of what is British and educate the people of India, for instance.
The piece by Said was also mentioned. He coined the term, "orientalism," which is a British view of the colonized. They showed clips of Disney's "Aladdin" to try to emphasize this point.
"Aladdin" would be an Orientalist idea because of all of the mysticism, sand, nail bed laying, harem, sword eating idea of Arabian people.
There's also the idea of what happens next?
Writers that come from British colonies are stuck wondering whether or not to write in English or to use their native languages.
In Joyce's, Ulysses, Stephan marvels over language. He is conflicted because he doesn't know his native Irish language. He knows English because Ireland was colonized by Britain. How is he supposed to find his identity?
What happens to the colonized?