Algerians refused radios without any organized resistance or rational decision

Evidence

Thus hundreds of Algerian families whose standard of living was sufficient to enable them to acquire a radio did not acquire one. Yet there was no rational decision to refuse this instrument. There was no organized resistance to this device. No real lines of counter-acculturation, such as are described in certain monographs devoted to underdeveloped regions, have been shown to exist, even after extensive surveys. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 257

Categorization

• QUESTION: What mechanism explains a mass refusal that is neither rational decision nor organized resistance? Fanon leaves this as an implicit puzzle worth chasing.
• XREF: connects to: The Algerian Revolution transformed veil practices without ever planning to.; Colonized Algerians rejected the radio without any organized resistance, contradicting Western sociological explanations; Algerians’ stated radio objections were rationalizations of the occupier’s rejection — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 320 (+1 more)

Related

• Colonized Algerians rejected the radio without any organized resistance, contradicting Western sociological explanations (similarity 0.92)
• Algerians’ stated radio objections were rationalizations of the occupier’s rejection (similarity 0.88)
• The Algerian Revolution transformed veil practices without ever planning to. (similarity 0.86)
• Algerian society refused radio because it was modeled on Western family norms (similarity 0.86)
• Algerians explained radio refusal through family honor and moral taboo (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial radio services altered programming schedules to respect Algerian family hierarchy (similarity 0.82)
• Before 1954 an Algerian radio marked Europeanization and vulnerability (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Algerians’ stated radio objections were rationalizations of the occupier’s rejection #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 320