Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people

Evidence

What is the origin of this personality change? What is the source of this new way of being? Every dialect is a way of thinking, Damourette and Pichon said. And the fact that the newly returned Negro adopts a language different from that of the group into which he was born is evidence of a dislocation, a separation. Professor D. Westermann, in The African Today (p. 331), says that the Negroes’ inferiority complex is particularly intensified among the most educated, who must struggle with it unceasingly. Their way of doing so, he adds, is frequently naive: “The wearing of European clothes, whether rags or the most up-to-date style; using European furniture and European forms of social intercourse; adorning the Native language with European expressions; using bombastic phrases in speaking or writing a European language; all these contribute to a feeling of equality with the European and his achievements.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97; The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection.; Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77 (+4 more)

Related

• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.96)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.95)
• Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated. (similarity 0.92)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.90)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.87)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.87)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.86)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.86)
• Educated colonials who adopt radical thought are charged with ingratitude (similarity 0.86)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.85)
• Elite foreign schooling can intensify arrogance and self-contempt toward one’s own country (similarity 0.85)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized (similarity 0.85)
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does (similarity 0.85)
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. #corroborates (0.80)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. #contradicts (0.80)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343
• Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated. #expands (0.60)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360