Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution

Evidence

The Algerian people accepted the radio when it ceased to be an instrument of the enemy and was useful for the revolution. In the same way the Cuban people accepted literacy and achieved it in a year when this became a goal of the revolution, when they saw it was tied to their own concrete interests and not to those of capitalist governments. The transistor radio has been transformed into a revolutionary implement as powerful as the gun. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 21 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Specialists in basic health education should give careful thought to the new situations that develop in the course of a struggle for national liberation on the part of an underdeveloped people. Once the body of the nation begins to live again in a coherent and dynamic way, everything becomes possible. The notions about “native psychology” or of the “basic personality” are shown to be vain. The people who take their destiny into their own hands assimilate the most modern forms of technology at an extraordinary rate. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 460 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Revolutionary peoples assimilate modern technology at extraordinary speed — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 26; Technology becomes accepted only when it serves revolutionary interests; National liberation transforms colonized people into rapid assimilators of modern technology. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 460 (+8 more)

Related

• Revolutionary peoples assimilate modern technology at extraordinary speed (similarity 0.89)
• Technology acceptance depends on whose interests it serves, not the technology itself. (similarity 0.88)
• National liberation transforms colonized people into rapid assimilators of modern technology. (similarity 0.86)
• Technology becomes accepted only when it serves revolutionary interests (similarity 0.86)
• Owning a radio before 1954 meant surrendering the home to the colonizer (similarity 0.81)
• Revolution transformed radio from tool of domination into nation-builder (similarity 0.79)
• Technical instruments carry negative valence rooted in the colonial situation (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Technology becomes accepted only when it serves revolutionary interests #corroborates (0.90)
• Technology acceptance depends on whose interests it serves, not the technology itself. #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 21
• National liberation transforms colonized people into rapid assimilators of modern technology. #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 460
• Communication technology serves group monopolies of knowledge, not community #qualifies (0.55) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 599