Imperialism In The Odyssey

Camus wanted to show how “us” pictures itself as superior to the inferior “them”. Colonizer is in power and civilized but the colonized is uncivilized and primitive. Arab heading down walking by the French officer conveys inferiority. When their own culture is forbidden or devalued, natives come to see themselves as inferior to the conqueror. When the climbers are near the school, Balducci shouts to Daru that it took only an hour to travel the two miles from El Ameur. It reflects the idea of how people can be close together geographically but how far from each other in terms of moralities, rules, and beliefs, and how they are always in fight over the later elements. Even the dress that the Arab is wearing connotes the primitiveness of the natives.
But here Camus wants to show the resistance of the Algerians to the French customs and dress codes. He wears a blue jellaba, sandals, and a cheche on his head. Sometimes the colonizer fears that the colonized will be like him because imitation bring honor and having honor undermines the authoritative discourse of colonialism. France tried to westernize Algerian society through women by forcing them to throw their chadors away and jellaba by men. According to Fanon, a literary critic, the liberation of Algerian women was encouraged by French colonialists. European colonizers believed that their ideas and experiences were universal. But here we see the opposition of the natives to change their dress according to the dress code of the colonizer. For Algerians, modernization meant they had to found a new country so here we see a cold war happening against the rules and morals of the