Anglicized colonial elites were barred from the English nation itself

Evidence

Nothing more sharply underscores the fundamental contradiction of English official nationalism, i.e. the inner incompatibility of empire and nation. I say ‘nation’ advisedly, because it is always tempting to account for these Pals in terms of racism. No one in their right mind would deny the profoundly racist character of nineteenth-century English imperialism. But the Pals also existed in the white colonies – Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. English and Scottish school-masters also swarmed there, and Anglicization was also cultural policy. As to Pal, to them too the looping upward path still open to the Scots in the eighteenth century was closed. Anglicized Australians did not serve in Dublin or Manchester, and not even in Ottawa or Capetown. Nor, until quite late on, could they become Governors-General in Canberra. Only ‘English English’ did, i.e. members of a half-concealed English nation. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 368

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘inner incompatibility of empire and nation’ — the core theoretical mechanism of official nationalism.
• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s Islamophobia toolkit: the ‘half-concealed nation’ and the excluded colonized subject who can never fully assimilate resonate with Fanon’s colonial psychology and the racialized selfhood in later postcolonial readings. — connects to: Japanified colonial subjects were barred from the Japanese metropole — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 379; Britain deliberately pursued cultural conversion while excluding colonial subjects by race — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 363; Colonial birth itself, not behavior, barred creoles from imperial office — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 227 (+3 more)
• ADDENDUM: The barring of the colonized subject regardless of cultural achievement parallels the class/identity signaling dynamics in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’.

Related

• Anglicized colonials faced exclusion even in the white colonies, not just through racism (similarity 0.84)
• Anglicized Indian elites faced permanent subordination despite assimilation (similarity 0.82)
• Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Japanified colonial subjects were barred from the Japanese metropole #corroborates (0.90) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 379
• Britain deliberately pursued cultural conversion while excluding colonial subjects by race #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 363
• Official nationalism invited colonized peoples to assimilate but barred full inclusion #corroborates (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 401
• Colonial birth itself, not behavior, barred creoles from imperial office #exemplifies (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 227
• Colonized black writers abandon their country and are barred from themselves #qualifies (0.75)