Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted

Evidence

An underdeveloped people must prove, by its fighting power, its ability to set itself up as a nation, and by the purity of every one of its acts, that it is, even to the smallest detail, the most lucid, the most self-controlled people. But this is all very difficult. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 66

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s; Citizens remain morally responsible for atrocities committed in their nation’s name.; Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 65 (+5 more)

Related

• Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.89)
• Unapproved colonizers must perform legitimacy rather than act at home (similarity 0.89)
• Colonized peoples must fight cleanly by double standards while colonizers freely use terror (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.80)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.79)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected (similarity 0.79)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The colonized seek French refinement as proof they have measured up to the culture #exemplifies (0.85)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343
• Colonial powers impose a double moral standard demanding restraint only from the colonized #corroborates (0.60)