French colonial peace eroded village cohesion and elder authority

Evidence

What is true is that under normal conditions, an interaction must exist between the family and society at large. The home is the basis of the truth of society, but society authenticates and legitimizes the family. The colonial structure is the very negation of this reciprocal justification. The Algerian woman, in imposing such a restriction on herself, in choosing a form of existence limited in scope, was deepening her consciousness of struggle and preparing for combat. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230 (#corroborates, 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: France’s railway-building ‘civilizing’ of peasants supplied the colonial template; Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa; Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230 (+4 more)

Related

• Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society (similarity 0.86)
• Utopian agrarian models were inverted in the colonies to enforce property and marriage. (similarity 0.80)
• France’s railway-building ‘civilizing’ of peasants supplied the colonial template (similarity 0.80)
• French peace dissolved village cohesion and fostered African individualism. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa #corroborates (0.72)
• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421