Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture

Evidence

For the specialist in colonial affairs, veterans and the “developed” natives are the commandos who are entrusted with destroying the cultural resistance of a colonized country. The regions are accordingly classified in terms of the number of developed “active units,” in other words, agents of erosion of the national culture that they contain. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘developed natives’ as colonial commandos tasked with destroying cultural resistance — a key Fanonian concept of colonial permeation.
• XREF: connects to: Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture; Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism; Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (+10 more)

Related

• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial authorities already began politicizing genealogical divisions (similarity 0.87)
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial rulers deflect blame by deploying one colonized group against another. (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial powers replaced native scripts to sever colonies from their heritage and elite. (similarity 0.79)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial officials used language hierarchy to justify claims of Indigenous mental inferiority (similarity 0.78)
• The coloniality concept erases African agency by treating all colonizers alike. (similarity 0.78)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #exemplifies (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #expands (0.55)