Pied noir settlers related to Algerians through indifference and paternalism

Evidence

If the pied noir attitude to the indigenous Algerian could be summed up in a word, it was, simply, indifference. He was regarded, says Pierre Nora, “as an anonymous figure of whom it sufficed to know that one provided his welfare, so that one had no need to be concerned about him”. In so far as he supplied the labour essential for exploiting the country, he was simply “a part of the patrimoine immobilier [real estate inheritance]”. At best he would be treated with paternalism, fairness and a kind of formal acceptance of his different religion and culture. But too often he was regarded with disdain, and from a vantage of superiority; which manifested itself in many different ways, and more insidiously among the poorer levels of whites where the frictional contact was closest. Bicot, melon, figuier, sale raton — there was a plethora of derogatory slang for an inferior race that sprang all to readily to the lips. Equally a host of preconceived inherited notions about the Algerian were accepted uncritically, without examining either their veracity or causation: he was incorrigibly idle and incompetent; he only understood force; he was an innate criminal, and an instinctive rapist. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 161 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In Algeria, where European settlers are numerous and where the territorial militia lost no time in enrolling the postman, the nurse and the grocer in the repressive system, the men who directed the struggle faced an absolutely new situation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pied noir beliefs about lazy Algerian workers masked malnutrition’s effects; Pied noir racism toward Algerians was rooted in indifference rather than overt hatred — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 161; Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim (+9 more)

Related

• Pied noir racism toward Algerians was rooted in indifference rather than overt hatred (similarity 0.91)
• Pied noir beliefs about lazy Algerian workers masked malnutrition’s effects (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. (similarity 0.83)
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system (similarity 0.82)
• Muslims and pieds noirs were separated by incompatible religious, cultural and economic orientations (similarity 0.80)
• Pied noir culture contained a capacity for reflex violence. (similarity 0.79)
• Both the old paternalist and the coercive forms of colonial Algeria were dying. (similarity 0.78)
• Pieds noirs actually wanted economic privilege, not formal French Algeria (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Pied noir racism toward Algerians was rooted in indifference rather than overt hatred #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 161
• Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim #complicates (0.70)
• Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187