A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
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In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote discusses the imposition of colonial values on indigenous people and their eventual acceptance of those values as a form of domination.
Frantz Fanon's quote highlights the psychological and cultural effects of colonialism on indigenous populations. It underscores that the true work of the colonizer is completed only when the colonized fully acknowledge and submit to the values and beliefs imposed by the colonizers, symbolizing a complete subjugation and loss of their original identity.
Themes
ColonialismValuesOppressionIdentityDominance
In practice
Example use cases
During a lecture on post-colonial theory, this quote can illustrate the psychological impact of colonialism.
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