The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection.

Evidence

What becomes of the exceptional cases of which M. Mannoni tells us? Quite simply, they are the instances in which the educated Negro suddenly discovers that he is rejected by a civilization which he has none the less assimilated. So that the conclusion would come to this: To the extent to which M. Mannoni’s real typical Malagasy takes on “dependent behavior,” all is for the best; if, however, he forgets his place, if he takes it into his head to be the equal of the European, then the said European is indignant and casts out the upstart–who, in such circumstance, in this “exceptional case,” pays for his own rejection of dependence with an inferiority complex. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

What is the origin of this personality change? What is the source of this new way of being? Every dialect is a way of thinking, Damourette and Pichon said. And the fact that the newly returned Negro adopts a language different from that of the group into which he was born is evidence of a dislocation, a separation. Professor D. Westermann, in The African Today (p. 331), says that the Negroes’ inferiority complex is particularly intensified among the most educated, who must struggle with it unceasingly. Their way of doing so, he adds, is frequently naive: “The wearing of European clothes, whether rags or the most up-to-date style; using European furniture and European forms of social intercourse; adorning the Native language with European expressions; using bombastic phrases in speaking or writing a European language; all these contribute to a feeling of equality with the European and his achievements.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation.; Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people; Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97 (+3 more)

Related

• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.96)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.94)
• Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated. (similarity 0.93)
• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected (similarity 0.90)
• Educated colonials who adopt radical thought are charged with ingratitude (similarity 0.90)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.89)
• Educated colonized subjects feel defensive before any actual conflict occurs (similarity 0.88)
• Elite foreign schooling can intensify arrogance and self-contempt toward one’s own country (similarity 0.86)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.86)
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized (similarity 0.85)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.85)
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization (similarity 0.85)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.84)
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Educated colonial subjects doing well assimilating get punished with inferiority when rejected #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 343
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97
• Adopting a new language evidences dislocation and the inferiority complex among the educated. #expands (0.80)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77