Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s; Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (+20 more)

Related

• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.87)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.86)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.86)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.85)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture (similarity 0.82)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.82)
• Language mastery determines how human a colonized black man is considered (similarity 0.82)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.82)
• The white man’s arrival shattered the Malagasy’s psychological mechanisms along with colonial horizons. (similarity 0.82)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized #exemplifies (0.85)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness #exemplifies (0.85)
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #corroborates (0.75)
• Colonial racial thinking dehumanized Africans as they assimilated colonial culture #expands (0.70)
• Colonial rule rewarded mixed-bloods according to their degree of whiteness. #exemplifies (0.70)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. #expands (0.65)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #qualifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244
• Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love #complicates (0.60)