Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression

Evidence

The reactions and the behavior patterns to which the arrival of the European in Madagascar gave rise were not tacked on to a pre-existing set. There was no addition to the earlier psychic whole. If, for instance, Martians undertook to colonize the earth men—not to initiate them into Martian culture but to colonize them—we should be doubtful of the persistence of any earth personality. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (#expands, via linked claim)

The same time that the colonized man braces himself to reject oppression, a radical transformation takes place within him which makes any attempt to maintain the colonial system impossible and shocking. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 617 (#expands, via linked claim)

Initially subjective, the breaches made in colonialism are the result of a victory of the colonized over their old fear and over the atmosphere of despair distilled day after day by a colonialism that has incrusted itself with the prospect of enduring forever. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Inner transformation precedes and drives national sovereignty — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 618; Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (+7 more)

Related

• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.91)
• Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable (similarity 0.90)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.89)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.88)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.86)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.85)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.85)
• Decolonization must transform inner consciousness as much as social structures (similarity 0.85)
• Inner psychological mutation, not independence, is what generates national sovereignty (similarity 0.84)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.84)
• Inner transformation precedes and drives national sovereignty (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered (similarity 0.83)
• Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 617
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him #expands (0.65)
• Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body #qualifies (0.40)