Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations

Evidence

Colonial domination, as we have seen, gives rise to and continues to dictate a whole complex of resentful behavior and of refusal on the part of the colonized. The colonized exerts a considerable effort to keep away from the colonial world, not to expose himself to any action of the conqueror. In everyday life, however, the colonized and the colonizers are constantly establishing bonds of economic, technical, and administrative dependence. Colonialism obviously throws all the elements of native society into confusion. The dominant group arrives with its values and imposes them with such violence that the very life of the colonized can manifest itself only defensively, in a more or less clandestine way. Under these conditions, colonial domination distorts the very relations that the colonized maintains with his own culture. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Imperialism normalized unprecedented hybrid and race-based arrangements.; Global postmodernism celebrates a commodified ethnic difference that high modernism could not acknowledge; Community essentialism is a fantasy masking the hybrid constitution of migrant groups (+8 more)

Related

• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial domination doctrine reduces humanity to fixed racial essences (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial critics feared that hybridity produced rootless, useless subjects (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.82)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.82)
• Hybridity is cultural combination free of racial referents (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial color-class hierarchies enforced within families can destroy colonized subjects (similarity 0.80)
• Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.80)
• Western colonial globalization made traditional cultures hybrids, not fixed entities (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Cultural domination has real effects without being all-powerful or all-inclusive #expands (0.80)
• Colonial ethnic categories broke down under acts both personal and political #exemplifies (0.75)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. #corroborates (0.75)