Antillean comparison is governed by a social rather than a personal fiction.

Evidence

This process, quite apart from all bonds based on shared substantive interests, will often lead to actual relations between the elements of any two—or of many—groups that have been made alike in this way. One observes this, for example, in the international sympathy that aristocrats hold for one another. To an astonishing degree, these feelings of solidarity are independent of the specific character of the individuals concerned, a matter that is otherwise decisive in determining personal attraction and repulsion. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

This world of sociability, the only one in which a democracy of equals is possible without friction, is an artificial world, made up of beings who have renounced both the objective and the purely personal features of the intensity and extensiveness of life in order to bring about among themselves a pure interaction, free of any disturbing material accent. If we now have the conception that we enter into sociability purely as “human beings,” as that which we really are, lacking all the burdens, the agitations, the inequalities with which real life disturbs the purity of our picture, it is because modern life is overburdened with objective content and material demands. Ridding ourselves of this burden in sociable circles, we believe we return to our natural-personal being and overlook the fact that this personal aspect also does not consist in its full uniqueness and natural completeness, but only in a certain reserve and stylizing of the sociable man. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 378 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Antillean’s sense of self is entirely contingent on the Other’s judgment.; Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one; Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 758 (+6 more)

Related

• Antillean self-worth depends entirely on comparison with others (similarity 0.91)
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one (similarity 0.89)
• Inferiority in Antilleans is collective and environmental, not individual (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin (similarity 0.85)
• Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it (similarity 0.84)
• The Antillean’s sense of self is entirely contingent on the Other’s judgment. (similarity 0.82)
• The Antillean’s self-worth is entirely contingent on comparison with others (similarity 0.81)
• Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character (similarity 0.79)
• Antillean identity is contingent entirely on the white Other (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one #corroborates (0.85)
• Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character #exemplifies (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595
• Sociability among equals is an artificial stylized game, not a return to natural self #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 378
• Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 758
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin #corroborates (0.60)
• Inferiority in Antilleans is collective and environmental, not individual #corroborates (0.55)
• The Antillean’s self-worth is entirely contingent on comparison with others #qualifies (0.35) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 753
• Antillean self-worth depends entirely on comparison with others #qualifies (0.35)