The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized.

Evidence

1. My patient is suffering from an inferiority complex. His psychic structure is in danger of disintegration. What has to be done is to save him from this and, little by little, to rid him of this unconscious desire. … 2. If he is overwhelmed to such a degree by the wish to be white, it is because he lives in a society that makes his inferiority complex possible, in a society that derives its stability from the perpetuation of this complex, in a society that proclaims the superiority of one race; to the identical degree to which that society creates difficulties for him, he will find himself thrust into a neurotic situation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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)

As long as he remains among his own people, the little black follows very nearly the same course as the little white. But if he goes to Europe, he will have to reappraise his lot. For the Negro in France, which is his country, will feel different from other people. One can hear the glib remark: The Negro makes himself inferior. But the truth is that he is made inferior. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 575 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process.; The colonized is forced to wear the stereotype the colonizer has sewn for him; Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (+26 more)

Related

• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.94)
• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. (similarity 0.92)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.91)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.90)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.89)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.88)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.87)
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does (similarity 0.85)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.85)
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one (similarity 0.85)
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.85)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.85)
• The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process. (similarity 0.84)
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization (similarity 0.83)
• A colonized intellectual living in Europe acquires Europe’s racist unconscious (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. #corroborates (0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Going to Europe forces the Negro to reappraise his lot and feel inferior #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 575
• Colonial officials used language hierarchy to justify claims of Indigenous mental inferiority #exemplifies (0.50)
• African disinclination to violence was misread as racial inferiority #exemplifies (0.45)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation #expands (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214