Cultural valuation of the colonized follows the colonizer’s endorsement
Evidence
In all these pioneering cases, we see the colonized subjugated to their colonizers’ assumption of cultural superiority. Shakespeare becomes beautiful because the sun never sets on the British Empire—and Kiarostami becomes a great filmmaker only after the French celebrate him at Cannes. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 114
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the postmodern critique of canon formation and the economics of prestige in the art world. — connects to: Colonizers only value the colonized when they conform to the master norm — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 605
Related
- Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.80)
- Colonizers only value the colonized when they conform to the master norm (similarity 0.78)