Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models

Evidence

As bilingual intelligentsias, however, and above all as early-twentieth-century intelligentsias, they had access, inside the classroom and outside, to models of nation, nation-ness, and nationalism distilled from the turbulent, chaotic experiences of more than a century of American and European history. These models, in turn, helped to give shape to a thousand inchoate dreams. In varying combinations, the lessons of creole, vernacular and official nationalism were copied, adapted, and improved upon. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 488

Categorization

• XREF: The copying-adaptation mechanism of colonial nationalism parallels the Islamophobia field’s account of how ‘the Other’ is constructed through borrowed colonial categories — a transferable conceptual scaffold. — connects to: Siam’s king toured colonies to copy imperial models — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 426; Bilingualism gave colonial intelligentsias access to modular models of nationalism — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 452; Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 218 (+8 more)

Related

• Bilingualism gave colonial intelligentsias access to modular models of nationalism (similarity 0.89)
• Later European nationalisms differed from American ones in print-language centrality and visible models. (similarity 0.87)
• Nationalism could be consciously modeled and pirated once visible predecessors existed. (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did (similarity 0.87)
• Nationalism originated in the New World colonies, not in Europe’s ethnolinguistic movements (similarity 0.86)
• Nationalism was invented in colonial Creole societies, not Europe. (similarity 0.83)
• Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements (similarity 0.82)
• Open access to the imperial center preempted colonial nationalist movements (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial intelligentsias are structurally compelled toward the colonizer’s language in public life (similarity 0.82)
• A colonized intellectual could use Dutch nationalist history against the Dutch (similarity 0.81)
• Early American nationalisms did not depend on language difference (similarity 0.81)
• Empire size forced recruitment of bilingual native clerks who later became nationalists (similarity 0.81)
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial language legacies still govern which texts circulate. (similarity 0.80)
• Once a national-state model exists, even reactionary nationalisms must adopt populist standards (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial subjects imagined nations before most of Europe did #contradicts (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 218
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism #expands (0.80)
• Colonial administrative language can become the lingua franca of anticolonial nationalism #expands (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 667
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia #expands (0.72)