Colonized subjects identify with the colonizer’s culture while lacking its material means

Evidence

Because my mother was brought up in this Jamaican plantation context, she thought she was practically “English.” She thought England was the mother country; she identified with the colonial power. She had aspirations for us, her family, which materially we couldn’t keep up with, but which she aspired to, culturally. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 746

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows the internalized colonial identification with the ‘mother country’ that decolonial theory assumes prior to its interventions — a concrete case of the colonized psyche.