Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized

Evidence

I am talking about millions of men in whom fear has been cunningly instilled, who have been taught to have an inferiority complex, to tremble, kneel, despair, and behave like flunkeys. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 59

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the ‘colonial psychology’ and racialized selfhood vocabulary of later Islamophobia readings; echoes Fanon’s later work on the psychology of the colonized. — connects to: Knowledge of colonized peoples produces power to control them; Colonial domination doctrine reduces humanity to fixed racial essences; Colonial rulers reject native self-determination as beyond subject capacity (+22 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the psychological mechanism by which colonial power operates on the subjectivity of the colonized: fear and inferiority deliberately taught, not incidental.

Related

• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.87)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.85)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.85)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial officials used language hierarchy to justify claims of Indigenous mental inferiority (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial rulers reject native self-determination as beyond subject capacity (similarity 0.84)
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does (similarity 0.83)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.83)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial labels made the colonized simultaneously inferior and belonging to the land. (similarity 0.82)
• Knowledge of colonized peoples produces power to control them (similarity 0.82)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.82)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #corroborates (0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization #contradicts (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 317
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #corroborates (0.88) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #exemplifies (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #expands (0.82) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonial officials used language hierarchy to justify claims of Indigenous mental inferiority #exemplifies (0.80)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected #exemplifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343