A colonized intellectual could use Dutch nationalist history against the Dutch

Evidence

In my opinion, there is something out of place – something indecent – if we (I still being a Dutchman in my imagination) ask the natives to join the festivities which celebrate our independence. Firstly, we will hurt their sensitive feelings because we are here celebrating our own independence in their native country which we colonize. At the moment we are very happy because a hundred years ago we liberated ourselves from foreign domination; and all of this is occurring in front of the eyes of those who are still under our domination. Does it not occur to us that these poor slaves are also longing for such a moment as this, when they like us will be able to celebrate their independence? — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 454

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia; The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize; Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 284 (+5 more)

Related

• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial administrative language can become the lingua franca of anticolonial nationalism #exemplifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 667
• Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. #expands (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 284
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize #expands (0.75)
• Colonial histories are internal to the identity of the colonizer nation #expands (0.75)
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia #expands (0.72)
• The Netherlands served as an unexamined template for colonial reform #expands (0.72)
• Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements #expands (0.72)