Frantz Fanon wrote about this 60 years ago. It has to do
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with colonized people losing their own cultural history. Colonizers portray them as primitive savages so they internalize their own inferiority. The colonized mindset then leads them to create fake histories about how they were actually advanced people.
Fanon criticizes this and says that it is a sign they still have a colonized mindset and should instead embrace what they know about their history and seek to create their own future.