Colonial rule caused the Malagasy dependency complex rather than pre-existing it.

Evidence

What M. Mannoni has forgotten is that the Malagasy alone no longer exists; he has forgotten that the Malagasy exists with the European. The arrival of the white man in Madagascar shattered not only its horizons but its psychological mechanisms. As everyone has pointed out, alterity for the black man is not the black but the white man. An island like Madagascar, invaded overnight by “pioneers of civilization,” even if those pioneers conducted themselves as well as they knew how, suffered the loss of its basic structure. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 353 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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: Mannoni reduces the Malagasy to a choice between inferiority and dependence.; Mannoni studied the Malagasy as if colonial contact never happened.; Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (+4 more)

Related

• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.91)
• Mannoni studied the Malagasy as if colonial contact never happened. (similarity 0.89)
• Mannoni reduces the Malagasy to a choice between inferiority and dependence. (similarity 0.88)
• The white man’s arrival shattered the Malagasy’s psychological mechanisms along with colonial horizons. (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial domination is justified by inventing a dependency complex in the colonized (similarity 0.86)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.86)
• The colonial subject’s very identity is constituted by the white man’s arrival (similarity 0.84)
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.82)
• Mannoni claimed colonized peoples unconsciously desired their own colonization (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.80)
• The revolution transformed customs, language, and master-slave relations (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.80)
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• The white man’s arrival shattered the Malagasy’s psychological mechanisms along with colonial horizons. #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 353
• Colonial education programs created the dependency complex they then blamed on blacks #corroborates (0.75)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347