The Effects of Colonialism on the Psyche of the Colonized Individual

Date

2013-1

Type

Article

Journal title

مجلة كلية اللغات - جامعة طرابلس

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 7

Author(s)

Abdulhamid Hadi Gadoua

Pages

23 - 35

Abstract

Abstract In addition to humiliation and oppression, colonizers usually keep representing their colonized people in an inferior status in order to achieve their objective of dominating them easily. Colonizers also try to form an elite class among the mass population and teach them in their homeland for a while before sending them to the West where they become directly subjected to the Western civilization1 . At the beginning, these colonized elite get fascinated by the exciting aspects of Western civilization, but later on they usually develop self-awareness of the misrepresentation and humiliation performed by their colonizers toward their people. Some individuals of the elite try to find a way to reconcile with their colonizers despite the horrible 1) See: Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, in: Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by: Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, INC,1963. P.7. 3 experiences of their people back home2 . Other individuals, however, go through a very hard experience where they develop some psychological disorders in which they interact with the innocent population of their colonizers abnormally.

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