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  • Essay / Stereotypes in Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

    The persona is the relationship between a person's consciousness and society, a mask, not the kind of mask a stage performer might wear on Broadway or in today's churches. In Frantz Fanon's 1952 book, Black Skin, White Masks. It examines in depth the world of black people and the psychology of inferiority, social structure and colonialism. Throughout history, black people have tried to impress white people in many expectations of life. On the other hand, Europeans took a primitive group from an underdeveloped continent into a strange and unusual culture. Exploring the effects brought slavery, which created anxiety, greed, and inferiority among all ethnic groups. This selfish desire caused a chain reaction from generation to generation. Low self-esteem is caused in childhood, by the separation of mothers from their children. This often happened during slavery and was passed down from generation to generation. These adults suffer from a lack of love and commitment. Black people who suffer from neurosis also tend to experience an overwhelming sense of helplessness and a wide range of historical situations and objections surrounding them, as well as man's attitude toward these conditions. The white man's desire to end the pathology of conflict is an overcompensation, a feeling of dissatisfaction. For Africans, Arabs and Jews, a different environment caused an inferiority complex across generations, from childhood to adulthood. In Mr. Monnonni's review entitled The Psychology of Colonization, "the central idea is that the confrontation of civilized and primitive men creates a particular situation." The Europeans are the civilized people and the primitives are the men and women kidnapped and brought to civilized countries. This kidnapping of people caused a traumatic experience that simply declined and weakened the psyche of a human being. Different comics and literature show how much happier the black man is on French and American soil, this propaganda is a brainwashing technique that actually caused destruction among the colonizer and the captured slaves. The exploitation of slaves posed an economic question of wealth, it created a huge gap between the rich and the poor, causing misery for the black man. The Jewish people who were persecuted for being part of the elite in Germany are often victims today, as are African Americans today around the world. Jews, like Africans, are treated inferiorly