Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through their life because some well-meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule.
Boudjedra dismisses arguments such as Daoud's as " trafficked history" – the product of an inferiority complex in a people still struggling to emerge from the psychological bonds of colonisation.
We have this kind of inferiority complex where in Mexico, when somebody had a birthday or a celebration, you'd go to the French food to celebrate, you'd go to the Italian food to celebrate it.