How does Alejo Carpentier show the consequences of Europeans forcing their culture on Western civilization?

The novel begins by painting a deep cultural division between the white European colonists and the black slaves of the plantation. They live in entirely different spheres, often with little awareness of the other's world. However, cultural division is not only based on race. The novel makes it clear as new regimes continue to impose slavery on the peasants, that cultural divides happen between those of the same race and country, and that these divisions lead to suffering.

King Henri Christophe, though he was once an acquaintance of Ti Noël, an acclaimed chef in the Cap, builds a cultural division between himself and the people of northern Haiti. The division is one of wealth and of class. The king has little true understanding of the world of the peasants that he rules over, though he was once part of a small minority of free blacks in a country run by French colonists and populated in vast majority by black slaves. Still, King Henri embraces European culture and creates a wealthy court that is separate from the people he rules.

The geese at the end of the novel represent cultural divides between people. The geese have their own tribe, and no stranger can become part of it, even another goose like them. Ti Noël's observations of the geese apply to King Henri Christophe and his court. Though the peasants and the king are of one race, they are of different cultures, and so they are divided. This idea can be enlarged and applied to the African diaspora. Africans who are dispersed throughout the world by slave traders lose their tribes. They no longer belong to the group that they came from and only belong to the new group of people, slaves.