المستوطن يصنع التاريخ، وهو واعٍ بأنه يصنعه. ولأنه يُكثر الإشارة إلى تاريخ وطن أمّه، فهو يبيّن بوضوح أنه امتدادٌ لذلك الوطن. ولذلك فالتاريخ الذي يكتبه ليس تاريخ البلد الذي ينهبه، بل تاريخ أمته هو عمّا تقتطعه وتنتهكه وتُجيع أهله.

“The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.”Frantz Fanon — Damnés de la terre (1965)