The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing.

Evidence

The feeling of inferiority of the colonized is the correlative to the European’s feeling of superiority. Let us have the courage to say it outright: It is the racist who creates his inferior. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself; Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority.; Accepting European-imposed separation drives the black subject to seek elevation within a racial hierarchy (+8 more)

Related

• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.94)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.91)
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.89)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.87)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.86)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.85)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.85)
• Reading European literature leads the black colonial subject to enslave himself (similarity 0.84)
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does (similarity 0.84)
• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. (similarity 0.84)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.84)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.84)
• The category of the Negro was fabricated in the West, not Africa (similarity 0.83)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.83)
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior #corroborates (0.95)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. #corroborates (0.90)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts #complicates (0.50)
• European racialism originated in intra-European caste ordering, not color #complicates (0.50)
• European racism predates African enslavement and originated as intra-European domination #complicates (0.50)