Elite foreign schooling can intensify arrogance and self-contempt toward one’s own country

Evidence

And while Oxford was refining and strengthening Moses’ idealism, it was having the same effect on his arrogance, which, increasingly took the form of galloping Anglophilia. Moses’ admiration for things Oxonian broadened into an admiration—strikingly deep—for all things British. Coupled with this feeling was one almost of scorn for things American. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 223

Categorization

• XREF: Personal-formation chapter in Mossadegh-era biography pattern; also chimes with the affective-empire material on colonial elites internalizing the metropole’s valuation. — connects to: Elite Oxford education bred contempt for ordinary and colonized people — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 224; Northern-educated Southern leaders internalize the view that their own cultures are inferior — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1380; Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Elite Oxford education bred contempt for ordinary and colonized people #exemplifies (0.95) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 224
• Northern-educated Southern leaders internalize the view that their own cultures are inferior #expands (0.85) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1380
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343
• Macaulay’s education policy deliberately manufactured Anglophone Indian elites #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 361