The colonized withhold truth from the colonizer as a defense.

Evidence

This particular observation is related to the overall attitude of the colonized who is hardly ever truthful before the colonizer. The colonized does not let on, does not confess himself, in the presence of the colonizer. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 463

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the broader psychology of colonial domination seen in Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks — concealment as survival strategy under a surveilling power. — connects to: The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize; Colonial destruction becomes self-justifying by erasing the conquered people’s rebuttals. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1199; The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165 (+3 more)

Related

• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial authority pre-emptively silences the colonized’s own testimony (similarity 0.87)
• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized and colonizer can never value the same thing together (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.79)
• Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized people reject the occupier’s values even when objectively worth choosing (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized aspiration toward the settler world rests on tolerated, patronized acceptance. (similarity 0.78)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The colonized turn a passive cultural element into a taboo weapon of resistance #exemplifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 165