Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves

Evidence

This is what is known as bovarisme. In Martinique also we were in the midst of bovarisme. I still remember a poor little Martinican pharmacist who passed the time writing poems and sonnets which he sent to literary contests, such as the Floral Games of Toulouse. He felt very proud when one of his poems won a prize. One day he told me that the judges hadn’t even realized that his poems were written by a man of color. To put it in other words, his poetry was so impersonal that it made him proud. He was filled with pride by something I would have considered a crushing condemnation. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 330 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Grand civilizational rubrics invent false collective identities that enable deadly conflicts; The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize; Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (+20 more)

Related

• Colonized writers internalize the colonizer’s aesthetic to erase their own identity (similarity 0.90)
• Colonized subjects recognize the colonizer’s landscape as already-familiar and idealized (similarity 0.88)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalist categories are reproduced by the colonized themselves (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial discourse manufactures silence around colonized peoples’ precolonial civilizations. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial destruction of other cultures undermines the colonizer’s own civilization (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.82)
• Language’s irreducible privacy, rooted in mortality, fuels colonial rage at the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial histories are internal to the identity of the colonizer nation (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Colonized writers internalize the colonizer’s aesthetic to erase their own identity #exemplifies (0.95) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 330
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize #expands (0.90)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #expands (0.82)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Educated colonized subjects feel defensive before any actual conflict occurs #exemplifies (0.80)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body #expands (0.78)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike #expands (0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 52