Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged

Evidence

In every country of the world there are climbers, “the ones who forget who they are,” and, in contrast to them, “the ones who remember where they came from.” The Antilles Negro who goes home from France expresses himself in dialect if he wants to make it plain that nothing has changed. One can feel this at the dock where his family and his friends are waiting for him. Waiting for him not only because he is physically arriving, but in the sense of waiting for the chance to strike back. They need a minute or two in order to make their diagnosis. If the voyager tells his acquaintances, “I am so happy to be back with you. Good Lord, it is hot in this country, I shall certainly not be able to endure it very long,” they know: A European has got off the ship. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 140 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself; Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white; Colored intellectuals feel European culture as exterior and themselves as strangers (+6 more)

Related

• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails (similarity 0.92)
• Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect (similarity 0.91)
• Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean students in Paris face a forced choice between white universality and dialect solidarity (similarity 0.83)
• Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots (similarity 0.82)
• Externally educated Antilles students face a forced choice between French and dialect (similarity 0.82)
• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves (similarity 0.81)
• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills (similarity 0.80)
• Antillean writers reject dialect because their formation was wholly French (similarity 0.80)
• The Antillean journey to France to become white reveals his real black face (similarity 0.80)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.80)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.80)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.79)
• The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect #expands (0.85)
• Antillean returnees can strategically choose dialect to deny change and placate their community #expands (0.80)
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails #corroborates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 140
• Returning expatriates deny their native language and are violently re-rooted on return #corroborates (0.70)
• Externally educated Antilles students face a forced choice between French and dialect #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 142
• The abroad-educated Antillean must choose between family and European society #expands (0.60)