The colonial experience in the Third World differed from one continent to another and from one country to another one, so the colonized or precolonized people 's responses to and conceptions of that experience are different. The colonial experience in the Arab world in particular was significantly different from that one in the African countries. For example, the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt (1798-1801) had many credits such as the introduction of printing to Egypt. Therefore, some Egyptian writers articulated a positivist view toward the West while others insisted on their radical standpoints and called for total separation from the West.