Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance.

Evidence

An underdeveloped people must prove, by its fighting power, its ability to set itself up as a nation, and by the purity of every one of its acts, that it is, even to the smallest detail, the most lucid, the most self-controlled people. But this is all very difficult. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66 (#expands, via linked claim)

Every colonized people–in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originalityfinds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards. He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s; Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66; Formerly colonized and suppressed peoples now speak for themselves rather than being spoken for. (+2 more)

Related

• Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted (similarity 0.89)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.87)
• Unapproved colonizers must perform legitimacy rather than act at home (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.86)
• Exposure to canonical culture functions as a strategy for pacifying the excluded. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.82)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror (similarity 0.81)
• Colonizers only value the colonized when they conform to the master norm (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.80)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s #expands (0.82)
• Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted #expands (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66
• Formerly colonized and suppressed peoples now speak for themselves rather than being spoken for. #complicates (0.75)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77