The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi
Language: English
Pages: 208
ISBN: 0807003018
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike.
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extent favored as compared to the colo- Portrait of the Colonizer 58 Does the colonial exist? 59 nized masses, they tend to establish relationships of the colonizer-colonized nature . At the same time, not from the colonized people than are the French . They do not have that stilted, formal relationship with corresponding to the colonizing group, not having them, that tone which always smacks of a master the same role as theirs in colonial society, they each stand out in their own way .
actions and mental attitudes . It would be as absurd very few colonizers who do not allow themselves to be overcome by those revulsions and those doubts, to demand that the colonizer be attuned to the life of the colonized, as it would be to ask left-wing intellectuals to ape laborers . These intellectuals, having and furthermore, these nuances must be taken into consideration in order to understand their relationship with the colonized and colonial life . insisted on dressing sloppily,
the colonizer then brings into play the shadows and describes the disastrous consequences . This hospitality is a result of the colonized's irresponsibility and extravagance, since he has no notion of foresight or economy . From the wealthy down to to him that strange and disturbing impulsiveness controls the colonized . The colonized must indeed be very strange, if he remains so mysterious after years of living with the colonizer. Another sign of the colonized's depersonalization is what one
European voices raised during these past few All racism and all xenophobia consist of delusions about oneself, including absurd and unjust aggressions toward others . Included are those of the years to repudiate this exclusion and inhumanity of the colonized, did more than all the good works and colonized-the more so when they extend beyond philanthropy in which segregation remained subjacent . That is why one can say that though the 0 Portrait of the Colonized 176 xenophobia and
East and West, that antithesis hardened by the colonizer, who thereby sets up a permanent barrier between himself and the colonized. What does the return to the East mean, anyway? Even if oppression has assumed the face of England or France, cultural and technical acquirements belong to all peoples . Science is neither Western nor Eastern, any more than it is bourgeois or proletarian . There are only two ways of pouring concrete-the right way and the wrong way . What will he then become? What is