By the nineteenth century, Western nations, especially Great Britain, had already created colonies around the world greatly influencing the natives and their cultures. American anthropologist Ruth Benedict saw racial discrimination due to Westernization in the book Patterns of Culture. This work was written decades after the Victorian era and shows how much it has changed. After colonization, the indigenous people were killed, displaced and “saw their religion, their economic system, their marriage bans, fall before those of the white man” (Benedict 20). This gave Europeans a sense of superiority towards their race because it can shape their beliefs making them believe that because they changed and got rid of many native cultures, they were the strongest