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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis

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The Algerian Is Impulsive

Fanon was mocking but also explaining these ideas that were very prevalent and ubiquitous at that time so numerous scientific studies followed pretending to outline various reasons for north african criminality. One of these medical scientists even went so far as to put forward the idea that the normal afAfrican is equivalent to a lobotomized european one scientific paper put in an internationally respected scientific journal at the time says we are in the presence of a coherent pattern of behavior which can be explained scientifically. The colonizers reluctance to entrust the native with any kind of responsibility does not stem from racism or paternalism but quite simply from a scientific assessment of the colonized limited biological possibilities end quote now of course fenang

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