Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing

Evidence

It is because they fail to grasp this intellectual reality, this characteristic feature (the famous sensitivity of the colonized), that the colonizers rage at always “doing them good in spite of themselves.” Colonialism wants everything to come from it. But the dominant psychological feature of the colonized is to withdraw before any invitation of the conqueror’s. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 213

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core question about colonial permeation: this explains the mechanics of rejection that underpin Fanon’s broader theory of colonial death and resistance. — connects to: Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together; The colonial situation forces colonized people to reject even beneficial medicine categorically. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 396; Colonial doctrines of justification push colonized peoples toward rigid counter-proposals (+4 more)

Related

• Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.86)
• The colonial situation forces colonized people to reject even beneficial medicine categorically. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial identity formation proceeds through refusal of the dominant cultural models on offer. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized hospitalization refusal stems from anti-colonial resistance, not rural superstition. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial conditions make life an incomplete, ever-menaced death (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized populations reject imperial medicine not from ignorance but as political resistance. (similarity 0.82)
• Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial life resembles incomplete death, and rejecting treatment is passive surrender (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized accepts colonial medicine but must simultaneously honor traditional healing (similarity 0.82)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The colonial situation forces colonized people to reject even beneficial medicine categorically. #exemplifies (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 396
• Colonized peoples reject foreign medicine as an instrument of exploitation #exemplifies (0.85)
• Colonial doctrines of justification push colonized peoples toward rigid counter-proposals #expands (0.70)
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
• Disalienation comes from refusing the tower of the past and the fixed present #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 826