Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences.

Evidence

After having sealed the Malagasy into his own customs, after having evolved a unilateral analysis of his view of the world, after having described the Malagasy within a closed circle, after having noted that the Malagasy has a dependency relation toward his ancestors–a strong tribal characteristic–M. Mannoni, in defiance of all objectivity, applies his conclusions to a bilateral totality–deliberately ignoring the fact that, since Galliéni, the Malagasy has ceased to exist. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346 (#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: Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346; Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421

Related

• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.87)
• The revolution transformed customs, language, and master-slave relations (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial rule caused the Malagasy dependency complex rather than pre-existing it. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial benefactors still cast colonized people as walk-on roles (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.82)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people (similarity 0.81)
• Mannoni studied the Malagasy as if colonial contact never happened. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421