Exposure to canonical culture functions as a strategy for pacifying the excluded.

Evidence

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77; The liberal offer of culture to the excluded aims to pacify, not empower.; Exclusion ceremonies psychologically reaffirm the included members’ belonging

Related

• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The liberal offer of culture to the excluded aims to pacify, not empower. #corroborates (0.90)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77