Nothing could better justify the colonizer’s privileged position than industry, and nothing could better justify tge colonised ’s destitution than his laziness. The mythical potrait of the colonized therefore includes an unbelievable laziness, and that of the colonizer suggests that employing the colonized is not very profitable, thereby authorizing his reasonable wages.
-Albert Memmi
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