Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation; Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself; Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421 (+3 more)

Related

• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.83)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.83)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.81)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.81)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia (similarity 0.81)
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself #corroborates (0.95)
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation #expands (0.85)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421