Shakespeare's Unsalvageable Savage

In the Postcolonialism piece we read it presents two sides, the colonizers and the colonized. The colonizers made the colonized "produce and then give up their countries' raw materials in exchange for what material goods the colonized desired or were made to believe they desired by the colonizers" (Postcolonialism, Page 236). The Tempest agrees with the assertion that "as soon as the colonized were forced to speak the language of the colonizer, the colonized either accepted or were coerced into accepting the collective consciousness of the colonizer" (Page 239). In The Tempest Caliban curses the fact that he was taught how to speak because it led him to show Prospero where all of the materials for living were on the island. But once Prospero witnessed Caliban attempting to rape Miranda, Caliban became lowly in his eyes. "These subhumans, or 'savages' quickly became the inferior, and equally 'evil'" (Page 236).
When Stephano comes upon Caliban he states: "If I can cure him from his fever and tame him, and get him back to Naples, he’d make a great present for any emperor" (Act 2, Scene 2, Page 4). The colonizer goes straight to asking himself 'How can I use this 'savage' to benefit me?' It seems that sympathy was not a part of any ones vocabulary until slavery began to be looked-down upon. Shakespeare presents Caliban as an evil, disgusting, creature though, leading a reader to see him as a colonizer would. When I read about him, I didn't necessarily think the word "inferior", but I sure didn't see him as an idol. Shakespeare diction in describing the "filthy savage" fulfills the stereotype that any race not colonized is menial.
By making Caliban praise the European man he comes across Shakespeare further belittles the colonized. "These are beautiful creatures, if they’re not spirits. He’s a good god, who brings liquor from the heavens. I will worship him" (Act 2, Scene 2, Page 5). Material things can persuade the primitive Caliban to worship a human man as a god. A stereotype for the "uncivilized" has flowed from generation to generation, and it succeeds in ours as well. As can be seen in the hundreds of westerns and John Wayne movies I've been forced to watch with my father. The Native Americans are constantly the enemies and besides that, never win. The white man is always the hero.
Caliban is portrayed as an idiot. Once cursing the fact that he had showed one man the resources on 'his' island, and now offering to do the same. "I’ll show you every inch of the island, and I’ll kiss your feet. I beg you, please be my god" (Act 2, Scene 2, Page 7). He is unable to apply simple human understanding to his situations, and it is as if Shakespeare blatantly points out that Caliban is primitive and incapable of succeeding.