Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture

Evidence

Every colonized people–in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originalityfinds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards. He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon defines the origin of the inferiority complex in colonized peoples: the death of local cultural originality.
• XREF: Connects to the mechanism of ‘death and burial of cultural originality’ underlying the whole book’s thesis. — connects to: Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s; Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority.; The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (+31 more)

Broader Connections

• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization #contradicts (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 317
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected #exemplifies (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343