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Fanon's Three Stages Related to the Indigenous People of Chiapas
The passage Shadows of Tender Fury by Subcommander Marcos of the
Zapatista Army explains that the people of Chiapas are currently facing a
period of revolution. The Zapatista army (consisting of Chiapian
campesinos) has risen to combat the intolerant ....
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.... culture upon them. The
Europeans believed that to assimilate the natives to European culture was
to help them progress. Therefore, to return to the old ways would have
been regressing. When the natives objected to the forced assimilation, the
colonizers smothered the rebellious efforts with stronger, more lethal
weapons. Fanon compares the colonizer to a mother who restrains her
"perverse" child so that he will not commit suicide.(Fanon 211) The
analogy implies that the colonized must be protected (by the colonizer)
from self-destruction ....
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