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Cesaire portrays France's less intrusive but still stridently nationalistic colonization of Africa is as a creating void of national identity, rather than as an imposition and a source of cultural clash and conflict, as chronicled in India by Smith.

It is important to remember of the earlier document of Cesaire that the author spoke to a populace still attempting to define itself anew, linguistically as well, as a nation after the legacy of French involvement, as embodied in the film "The Battle of Algiers." Cesaire thus gave more emphasis to national and collective psychological healing than healing personal guilt and interfamily conflict, given his own historical vantage point and his own cultural context in a less stridently self-examining world than Smith's Great Britain, and a nation less immediately comfortable with its personal identity. Also, unlike India, Algeria was a more religiously and linguistically unified society and had a more coherent 'identity' to articulate in response to the French imposition upon African language and culture.

And it is still, when reflecting upon the psychological consequences upon a nation and upon persons, important to recall the practical sentiments of Phuc Viet and Vietnam Hon in their "An Appeal to the League of Nations for the Rights of Self-Determination of the Vietnamese People.

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" These Vietnamese people stressed that concepts of societal improvement and national prosperity cannot be realized without the achievement of the former, or vice versa. Cesaire wrote to stress that economics and national separation were not enough, while the Vietnamese nationalists in defense of their own nation's struggle wrote that psychological and national identity were not enough to ensure economic success. They 'wrote' their own national coming of age, not in terms of American angst, as did Francis Ford Coppola's film, but in the language of the desire to advance themselves economically. However, despite the two former French colonist authors' different emphasis, in their writings both Cesaire's Algeria and Vietnamese statement show that a sense of independent identity remains important to the formerly oppressed, as is often the main language understood by the Western powers, with the West's obsession with achieving personal as opposed to a collective sense of independence.

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