« There are certain constellations of institutions, lived by specific people in specific geographical areas, which at a given moment have been subjected to the direct and brutal assault of different cultural chains. The generally high level of technical development of the social group thus created enables it to establish organised domination. Deculturation is the negative side of a more gigantic process of economic and even biological enslavement. The doctrine of cultural hierarchy is therefore only one modality of systematised hierarchisation, pursued relentlessly.»
« In reality, nations that wage colonial war are not concerned with confronting cultures. Colonial warfare is a gigantic commercial affair. And every perspective must be reduced to this fact. »
Frantz Fanon – Racisme and Culture – 1956