Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry

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)

Every colonized people–in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originalityfinds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards. He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

But the constancy of my love had been forgotten. I defined myself as an absolute intensity of beginning. So I took up my negritude, and with tears in my eyes I put its machinery together again. What had been broken to pieces was rebuilt, reconstructed by the intuitive lianas of my hands. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s; The colonized is forced to wear the stereotype the colonizer has sewn for him; Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture (+35 more)

Related

• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial identity formation proceeds through refusal of the dominant cultural models on offer. (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.86)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.86)
• Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered (similarity 0.86)
• Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.86)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial color-class hierarchies enforced within families can destroy colonized subjects (similarity 0.84)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.83)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable (similarity 0.83)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
• Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346