When members of colonized people thank their colonizers and try desperately to follow in their footsteps in the hope that doing so will make them civilized... this is yet another effect of colonialism. It does not prove the colonizers right, it just shows how ugly colonialism is.
A good body of work to read on this would be Alfred Memmi's writings. Memmi was born a Tunisian Jew under French colonialism, and describes how Tunisian Jews were treated as "more European" than the native Muslims, but never equal to the French; and he analyzes their response.
Two good books by Albert* Memmi:
1. The Colonizer and the Colonized (non-fiction)
2. The Pillar of Salt (novel)
1. The Colonizer and the Colonized (non-fiction)
2. The Pillar of Salt (novel)
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