Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers

Evidence

Simmel’s extraordinary originality may well be connected with his position as a relatively isolated thinker. He was, indeed, a “stranger” in the academy. The stylistic manifestations of a marginal position are striking in his written work. Neither in Simmel’s text nor in annotations does one find acknowledgment of scholarly predecessors or contemporaries. He speaks for himself, along with the immortal dead. What is more, Simmel deliberately shied away from recruiting disciples to carry on his kinds of inquiry. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

When we discover that there are several cultures instead of just one and consequently at the time when we acknowledge the end of a sort of cultural monopoly, be it illusory or real, we are threatened with the destruction of our own discovery. Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an ‘other’ among others. All meaning and every goal having disappeared, it becomes possible to wander through civilisations as if through vestiges and ruins. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself; A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious; Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 869 (+8 more)

Related

• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. (similarity 0.86)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.85)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.85)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity (similarity 0.83)
• Educated Martinican men studied European writers to make their color forgotten (similarity 0.82)
• Educated Negroes respond by exalting estrangement or renouncing the present for a mystical past. (similarity 0.81)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.81)
• Alienated educated Negroes either embrace their difference or bury themselves in a mystical past (similarity 0.81)
• Estranged educated Blacks either celebrate their difference or retreat into a mystical past. (similarity 0.80)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.79)
• The educated Negro’s estrangement culminates in a mystical-past idealism that abandons the present. (similarity 0.78)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.78)
• Returning to the colonies, the Europeanized Black finds both races reject him. (similarity 0.78)
• Colonized black writers abandon their country and are barred from themselves (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10
• Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning #corroborates (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious #expands (0.70)
• Externally educated blacks disavow their race to prove European identity #exemplifies (0.65)
• Externally educated intellectuals feel alienated from Western culture and flee to rediscovered Negro civilization. #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 869
• Educated Martinican men studied European writers to make their color forgotten #exemplifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 673
• Whiteness confers presumed belonging while nonwhiteness signals perpetual foreignness #corroborates (0.50)
• Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged #expands (0.40)