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Political culture of race and racism

...... Sartre also points out that colonialism is also a social and psychological problem (p. 30). The subjugated develop an inferiority complex that is reinforced by education and the media (Sartre p. 30). Described as vermin, the Native Americans are similarly taught that theirs is an inferior culture. In fact, the Native American population is visibly cordoned off onto reservations to prove their innate differences from the powerful ruling classes. The indigenous peoples are not considered to be on equal footing as those who are members of the same ethnic, social, or economic class as the oppressors
Social and psychological problems with colonialism also include the portrayal of the oppressed group as being dangerous. This is one of the main ways that colonial governments carry out their campaigns: by creating and maintaining a myth. As Churchill notes, we hear only of 'Indian wars', never of 'settlers' wars'. It is as if the natives, always 'warlike' and 'aggressive', had invaded London or Castile, (p. 3). Sartre also argues that the French depict the Algerian Muslims as being dangerous rebels even though they were right to attack, out of self-preservation (p. 32). Claiming that the Native Americans were warlike makes the American