S. Marine and they came crowding around."(Silko, 37) It is evident here that while Native American men were decorated in "American" military garments they were considered to be equal and free of discrimination, unlike those who did not serve. .
Alike with the novel Ceremony, the film Days of Glory also displays a non-discriminatory aspect of the French and their colonized peoples of Algeria. In this film, a large number of Algerians, who at the time were colonized by the French, were recruited into the French First Army of the Free French Forces, in World War II, to help liberate France from Nazi occupation. In this film, there is an immediate sense of discrimination while the troops go into the mess hall to receive their food rations. In this particular part of the film some of the soldiers, whom were Algerian, were denied tomatoes as part of their rations. As this unfolded, one of the Algerian, French soldiers, knocked over the entire wooden crate full of tomatoes and stated that if he could not enjoy them, then none of the other soldiers can, because even though they have never stepped foot on the soil of France they were all fighting for the same cause. Thus was the beginning of the Algerian soldiers being identified as people of France and then therefore were granted the access and consumption of all the same rations that French soldiers, from France, had received. In the latter part of this film, Days of Glory, the scene has this French First Army, comprising of currently colonized Algerians who were recruited, in France at the war's end. While in France many of these Algerian, French soldiers, were congregating and conversing with many of the French citizens who lived in France, mainly women. These women even kissed these men in the film, and it can be implied that some of these women had sexual relations with these men, which is quite astounding because of previous French discrimination towards these, Algerian, colonized, inferior subjects.
