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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 sys ....
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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. In the min ....
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