Gotta tell you, I have very mixed feelings about the use of the word 'colonization' here (yes, even though I mentioned it). And Franz Fanon is simply an excellent person to listen to here.
On the one hand, I can understand the rationale. This certainly is colonization of a sort. I doubt historically colonization has always been brutally violent. @histodons, can you help? But Fanon I think wants to save the word for a the brutality that certainly characterizes many--and this should not be taken lightly.