"the arab"

from the start of page 53, we see raymond go out of his way to make a hostile situation out of two strangers passing by on the beach. He all but orchestrated the circumstances that led to his evisceration and then seemed to be vengeful towards the people he tried to target. His innate animosity towards the 2 people is striking because he is essentially a foreigner in their land. Where one would think a measure of arid respect or at least indifference would  be present between these 2 peoples he moves with a self-entitled indignation that these arabs would dare disgrace his beach with their presence. It strikes out at me because more often than not we see colonial entities take the stance of  "superior " status with regards to their colonized regions and the attitudes that rise from that bring forth meaningless situations like the violence on the beach. It makes me wonder what other aspects of this society are slighted in favor of the colonizer's and not the colonized.