Who's to Blame?

In my opinion, the supplementary readings by Charles Bressler and Edward Said on Postcolonialism are the closest match with White Teeth as compared to the other texts and their supplements. The story is clearly a struggle between cultures, and as both essays make clear, also a matter of racism. We see innumerable amounts of examples where one character has an odd or uncomfortable feeling of another and some blatant instances of superiority of the British (especially in Archie's office) which cause what Postcolonialists would call the "alternity" of "Others", including Clara (Bressler, 236). An interesting point, as Said discusses, is on where to place the blame of such stereotypes. He suggests that it is within texts that people first learn these prejudices and because the "text [purports] to contain knowledge about something actual, [it] is not easily dismissed" (Said, 296). Perhaps then, would Said say, the only true way to know the reality of different races and cultures is through personal experience, an empiricist and scary (and perhaps incorrect) conclusion?