A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious

Evidence

What is the origin of this personality change? What is the source of this new way of being? Every dialect is a way of thinking, Damourette and Pichon said. And the fact that the newly returned Negro adopts a language different from that of the group into which he was born is evidence of a dislocation, a separation. Professor D. Westermann, in The African Today (p. 331), says that the Negroes’ inferiority complex is particularly intensified among the most educated, who must struggle with it unceasingly. Their way of doing so, he adds, is frequently naive: “The wearing of European clothes, whether rags or the most up-to-date style; using European furniture and European forms of social intercourse; adorning the Native language with European expressions; using bombastic phrases in speaking or writing a European language; all these contribute to a feeling of equality with the European and his achievements.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself; Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil; Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (+11 more)

Related

• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.89)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.88)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.87)
• Europeans hold a fixed, condescending concept of the Negro (similarity 0.86)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.86)
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.86)
• Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (similarity 0.85)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.85)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.85)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.84)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.84)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.84)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.83)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.83)
• Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture #expands (0.85)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. #expands (0.65)