In "The Old Chief Mshlanga," the natives are judged as good or bad based on the colonialist ideology of the colonizer. This idea simply means that the colonizers always regard themselves as superior and higher than the colonized people (the natives in this short story). They judge them based on how they feel. If they feel that natives are bad because they do not want what they are doing, they will eventually judge them as bad and degrade them. The writer also depicts her the idea of "othering". This is a symptom of colonialism idea. Othering is judging those who are considered inferior as less human and treated them like trash and useless.
