Colonizers naturalize their own accusations as an inherent trait of the colonized.

Evidence

Memmi refers to the image the colonizer constructs of the colonized: “By his accusation the colonizer establishes the colonized as being lazy. He decides that laziness is constitutional in the very nature of the colonized.” Memmi, op. cit., p. 81. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 612

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the reader’s interest in how dominant narratives get internalized — connects to stereotype/threat and to banking-education’s role in naturalizing deficiency claims.