“The anthropologist Renator Rosaldo noted that the colonizing peoples often mourn for the past of the colonized cultures they have tried to destroy. He called the colonizers’ sentimental respect for a colonized culture imperialist nostalgia. It allows the colonizers to define their own culture through progress and change while fencing progress and change off from the colonized culture. Imperialist nostalgia, Rosaldo writes, ‘makes racial domination appear innocent and pure’ by making the colonizers think that they respect what they have tried to destroy (Rosaldo 68). We can see imperialist nostalgia in movies and novels about the American West that memorialize Indians into a frozen past, a brief moment—usually from the nineteenth century—that the colonizers hold up to represent what Indians always were and what they should be still, whether in movies and novels or in the stereotypical feathered headdresses of sports mascots and children’s play. We can see it as well, Rosaldo notes, in such fiction and films as A Passage to India, Out of Africa, and The Gods Must Be Crazy. Change, the colonizing peoples think, is for ‘us.’ Any hint of change in ‘them’ must be denied, because it threatens the binary opposition that allows colonizers to see themselves as essentially different from the people they colonize, thus allowing the colonizers to justify their conquests” (285).