Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions

Evidence

Colonial domination, as we have seen, gives rise to and continues to dictate a whole complex of resentful behavior and of refusal on the part of the colonized. The colonized exerts a considerable effort to keep away from the colonial world, not to expose himself to any action of the conqueror. In everyday life, however, the colonized and the colonizers are constantly establishing bonds of economic, technical, and administrative dependence. Colonialism obviously throws all the elements of native society into confusion. The dominant group arrives with its values and imposes them with such violence that the very life of the colonized can manifest itself only defensively, in a more or less clandestine way. Under these conditions, colonial domination distorts the very relations that the colonized maintains with his own culture. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to reader’s research on how colonial permeation of medicine affects the colonized; connects to Fanon’s broader argument about the colonized’s defensive relation to colonial values. — connects to: Colonial domination itself, not tradition, shapes native resistance to medicine; Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s; Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (+55 more)
• DEFINE: Defines ‘dying in coloniality’ as a strictly colonial-era phenomenon, not a continuation of pre-conquest patterns.

Related

• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.88)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.87)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.87)
• Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.86)
• The colonial situation forces colonized people to reject even beneficial medicine categorically. (similarity 0.85)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.84)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial conditions make life an incomplete, ever-menaced death (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial life resembles incomplete death, and rejecting treatment is passive surrender (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77