Colonized peoples demand modernization while colonialists resist it

Evidence

The proof is that at present it is the indigenous peoples of Africa and Asia who are demanding schools, and colonialist Europe which refuses them; that it is the African who is asking for ports and roads, and colonialist Europe which is niggardly on this score; that it is the colonized man who wants to move forward, and the colonizer who holds things back. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 80

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the standard ‘civilizing mission’ framing — the colonized are the modernizers, the colonizer the conservative force. Anticipates Frantz Fanon’s emphasis on the colonized subject’s will to advance. — connects to: Industrial capitalism operates as a machine that degrades and mechanizes colonized peoples — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 265; Colonial doctrines of justification push colonized peoples toward rigid counter-proposals; Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution (+1 more)

Related

• Industrial capitalism operates as a machine that degrades and mechanizes colonized peoples (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution #expands (0.78)
• Colonial doctrines of justification push colonized peoples toward rigid counter-proposals #corroborates (0.72)