Learning another group’s dialect to pass as them constitutes alienation

Evidence

A Senegalese learns Creole in order to pass as an Antilles native: I call this alienation. The Antilles Negroes who know him never weary of making jokes about him: I call this a lack of judgment. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 145

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon explicitly labels protective dialect acquisition ‘alienation’ and the mockery of it ‘lack of judgment’.
• XREF: connects to: Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated.; Language and culture cannot confer national belonging without shared experience — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 572; Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 818 (+4 more)

Related

• Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated. (similarity 0.89)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.81)
• Language and culture cannot confer national belonging without shared experience (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Other minds as alter egos intensify complexity, requiring language to reduce it #responds-to (0.72)
• Language can distort as well as transmit human culture #expands (0.60)
• Leaving key emotion-words untranslated resists monolingual Western hegemony over meaning #complicates (0.60)