Edited sentence: Bambo instinctively runs away from this.Bambo is characterised as good, cheerful, black – the Enlightenment myth of the good savage, creating an opposition to that which is white and rational.Briefly speaking, this is a story about how enlightened Europe tries to civilise the savage.... The school, bath and milk are symbols of civilisation, of washing away that which is impure and incompatible with high culture, until it is white and pure.Complying with the rules of the West means the loss of his identity.Patrycja Pirog describes the post-colonial interpretation of the poem, which she characterizes as "one of the most popular images of the Negro": One of many, the post-colonial interpretation of the poem ​​by Marcin Moskalewicz reveals tendencies to domination by Western culture, tendencies which were camouflaged by Tuwim.[The word] 'Koleżka' means civilisational and cultural immaturity