National liberation transforms colonized people into rapid assimilators of modern technology.
Evidence
Specialists in basic health education should give careful thought to the new situations that develop in the course of a struggle for national liberation on the part of an underdeveloped people. Once the body of the nation begins to live again in a coherent and dynamic way, everything becomes possible. The notions about “native psychology” or of the “basic personality” are shown to be vain. The people who take their destiny into their own hands assimilate the most modern forms of technology at an extraordinary rate. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 460
Categorization
- XREF: Inverts earlier colonizer claims that colonized peoples are inherently incapable of technical modernization — echoes the ‘basic personality’ debates Fanon elsewhere attacks. — connects to: Revolutionary peoples assimilate modern technology at extraordinary speed — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 26; Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution
Related
- Revolutionary peoples assimilate modern technology at extraordinary speed (similarity 0.87)
- Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution (similarity 0.86)
- Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.78)
- Colonized peoples must prove national worth through flawless conduct to be accepted (similarity 0.78)