The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him

Evidence

Every colonized people–in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originalityfinds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards. He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77 (#expands, via linked claim)

The white man chooses the black man for this function, and the black man who is white also chooses the black man. The black Antillean is the slave of this cultural imposition. After having been the slave of the white man, he enslaves himself. The Negro is in every sense of the word a victim of white civilization. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 (#expands, via linked claim)

9. One always sees a smile when one reports this aspect of education in Martinique. The smile comes because the comicality of the thing is obvious, but no one pursues it to its later consequences. Yet these are the important aspects, because three or four such phrases are the basis on which the young Antillean works out his view of the world. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 978 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression; Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself; Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (+20 more)

Related

• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.90)
• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man (similarity 0.90)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.88)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.88)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture (similarity 0.87)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.86)
• For the Antillean Negro, mastery of French proportionally increases perceived whiteness and humanity. (similarity 0.86)
• Language mastery determines how human a colonized black man is considered (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression (similarity 0.85)
• Local colonial schooling shapes Antillean boys to identify with whiteness and disavow their blackness (similarity 0.84)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.84)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.84)
• The colonial seeks French refinement to prove he has measured up (similarity 0.84)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The black Antillean enslaves himself after being enslaved by the white man #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #expands (0.60)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture #expands (0.60)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• A few French phrases in Martinican education shape the young Antillean’s entire worldview #exemplifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 978
• Dreaming oneself white is a normal Antillean response to socialization #expands (0.60)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 672
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #exemplifies (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 585
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165