In my opinion, I felt that the most intriguing thing about his story was his stance on colonialism in terms of violence. Fanon makes an assertion in this chapter about how decolonization is always a violent process because of the violence used to start the colonization in the first place. According to Fanon, Decolonization must include violence because the “exploitation of the native the settler occurred through the use of bayonets and cannons.” The purpose of the this whole chapter is to state the need for the natives to fight for control of their homeland and to decrease/destroy the social divisions that were put in place to divide the natives both physically and mentally. This all became evident to me within the first few pages of this chapter and I began to understand colonialism as well as the current issues surrounding the native people of the developing world as a whole. In addition, I also believe that this chapter is extremely important because it is used a foundation for the subsequent chapters of the
In my opinion, I felt that the most intriguing thing about his story was his stance on colonialism in terms of violence. Fanon makes an assertion in this chapter about how decolonization is always a violent process because of the violence used to start the colonization in the first place. According to Fanon, Decolonization must include violence because the “exploitation of the native the settler occurred through the use of bayonets and cannons.” The purpose of the this whole chapter is to state the need for the natives to fight for control of their homeland and to decrease/destroy the social divisions that were put in place to divide the natives both physically and mentally. This all became evident to me within the first few pages of this chapter and I began to understand colonialism as well as the current issues surrounding the native people of the developing world as a whole. In addition, I also believe that this chapter is extremely important because it is used a foundation for the subsequent chapters of the