Colonized middle classes identify with colonizers against the colonized majority

Evidence

So what was played out in my family, culturally, from the very beginning, was the conflict between the local and the imperial in the colonized context. Both these class fractions were opposed to the majority culture of poor Jamaican black people: highly race and color conscious, and identifying with the colonizers. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 742

Categorization

• DEFINE: The local/imperial conflict in the colonized context is a core concept for colonial psychology — how colonized elites internalize imperial values.
• XREF: The process of colonized middle classes ‘identifying with the colonizers’ is the mechanism behind what later Islamophobia work treats as internalization of Orientalist self-views; matches Fanonian colonial psychology.