Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated.

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

A Senegalese learns Creole in order to pass as an Antilles native: I call this alienation. The Antilles Negroes who know him never weary of making jokes about him: I call this a lack of judgment. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 145 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people; Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97; Learning another group’s dialect to pass as them constitutes alienation — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 145 (+8 more)

Related

• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.94)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.93)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.92)
• Learning another group’s dialect to pass as them constitutes alienation (similarity 0.89)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.87)
• Elite foreign schooling can intensify arrogance and self-contempt toward one’s own country (similarity 0.84)
• Educated colonials who adopt radical thought are charged with ingratitude (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.83)
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men (similarity 0.83)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.83)
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does (similarity 0.83)
• Educated colonized subjects feel defensive before any actual conflict occurs (similarity 0.82)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.82)
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation (similarity 0.81)
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #corroborates (0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does #qualifies (0.65)
• Learning another group’s dialect to pass as them constitutes alienation #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 145
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343