A receptive passive people can absorb and Russify foreign elites

Evidence

National forces were inert, passive and receptive, but perhaps precisely for this reason they assimilated completely the foreign influences and the foreigners themselves, Russifying them. In the more recent historical period we find the opposite phenomenon. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 309

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is ‘inert receptivity assimilating the foreigner’ a mechanism relevant to how colonized populations absorb and transform the colonizer’s culture? Worth chasing.