Returning Antilleans signal allegiance through French speech or dialect

Evidence

The Negro arriving in France will react against the myth of the R-eating man from Martinique. He will become aware of it, and he will really go to war against it. He will practice not only rolling his R but embroidering it. Furtively observing the slightest reactions of others, listening to his own speech, suspicious of his own tongue–a wretchedly lazy organ–he will lock himself into his room and read aloud for hours–desperately determined to learn diction. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 84 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

In a more limited group, when students from the Antilles meet in Paris, they have the choice of two possibilities: –either to stand with the white world (that is to say, the real world), and, since they will speak French, to be able to confront certain problems and incline to a certain degree of universality in their conclusions; –or to reject Europe, “Yo,” and cling together in their dialect, making themselves quite comfortable in what we shall call the Umwelt of Martinique; by this I mean–and this applies particularly to my brothers of the Antilles –that when one of us tries, in Paris or any other university city, to study a problem seriously, he is accused of self-aggrandizement, and the surest way of cutting him down is to remind him of the Antilles by exploding into dialect. This must be recognized as one of the reasons why so many friendships collapse after a few months of life in Europe. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 142 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged; Integrationists cast French as the ordering Logos over colonized anarchy; Returning expatriates deny their native language and are violently re-rooted on return (+9 more)

Related

• Returning Antilleans are diagnosed by their dialect choice as European or unchanged (similarity 0.91)
• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills (similarity 0.90)
• Antillean students in Paris face a forced choice between white universality and dialect solidarity (similarity 0.90)
• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves (similarity 0.90)
• Externally educated Antilles students face a forced choice between French and dialect (similarity 0.88)
• Antillean Negroes in France wage an obsessive war against the R-eating stereotype. (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean writers reject dialect because their formation was wholly French (similarity 0.85)
• Returning Antilles Negroes are diagnosed by family as European if French prevails (similarity 0.84)
• Returning Antilles Negroes adopt a critical, oracular superiority over their compatriots (similarity 0.83)
• Returning from France mutates the Antilles Negro into a deified demigod back home (similarity 0.81)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.80)
• Antilleans going to France to confirm whiteness instead encounter their blackness. (similarity 0.80)
• A few French phrases in Martinican education shape the young Antillean’s entire worldview (similarity 0.79)
• The returned Negro’s adopted superiority is punished by his community’s unforgiving scrutiny (similarity 0.79)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Antilleans pursue French refinement to prove cultural adequacy to themselves #corroborates (0.85)
• Antilleans arriving in France wage war on the R-eating stereotype through diction drills #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 84
• Externally educated Antilles students face a forced choice between French and dialect #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 142