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e, this paper sets on the history of European colonialism, analyzes the description of characters, narrative words and the growing process of “Friday” who loses his national culture identity to deconstruct those binary oppositional colonial discourses: the colonial country and the colony, master and slave, the white and the colored, central culture and marginal culture, civilization and savageness, Christianity and cannibals and the like, explores the strategies for colonist's cultural colonization to those people in the colonies and reveals the dilemma of losing their national culture identity. I. Colonial Discourses In colonial literatures, the colonial discourses are prevailing. Especially during the period of colonialism and imperialism, those novelists preferred to produce a succession of powerful discourses as a useful approach to spreading colonism. The westerners were good at creating “the white mythology” and constructing imaginative “others”. In Orientalism, Edward Said pointed out, “the long-term images, stereotypes and general ideology about the ‘the Orient’ as the ‘Other’, constructed by generations of Western scholars, which produce myths about the laziness, deceit and irrationality of Orientals, as well as the reproduction and rebuttal in current debates on the Arab-Islamic world and its exchanges, particularly, with the United States.”（Selden et al., 223） Robinson Crusoe is a typical colonial literature that has a theme of colonism which is represented on a series of binary oppositional colonial discourses: the colonial country and the colony, master and slave, the white and non-white, central culture and marginal culture, civilization and savageness, Christianity and cannibals and other discourses. With the confidence of Britain Imperialism, Robinson, the representative of those colonists continuously claimed himself as the civilized man, his culture as the central culture, thus he had the competence of enslaving “the other” and spreading “civilization” to “the inferior race”. A. Master and Slave We have learned from the European culture that the Renaissance derived from and rose in Italy and then spread to other European countries. With the core of “Humanism”, it advocated “Human Right” and “Liberty”. Yet, it as well supported slavery system and the evil slave deal. Since the Renaissance was an age of economy revival, too. Those capitalists gained lucrative profits from the slave deal. What’s more, Karl Marx had ever classified slave deal as one essential factor of capital accumulation. (阿勃拉莫娃，1983：2) Thus, “Human Right” and “Liberty” were only confined to the West that was considered as “the Center of the World”. Master and slave was a common discourse in colonial literature. Those scholars often constructed “the white mythology” and treated westerners as “the master” of “the other” in their works. For another, Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, was originally a merchant who was concerned more about own interests. Daniel Defoe once said: “Trade is the wealth of the world. Trade made the difference between rich and poor, between one nation to another.”(Jackson, 82) In this short but significant statement Defoe expressed the main ideas of the mercantilistic system that Britain was developing at the end of the 17th century. The English mercantile spirit began during the Elizabethan Age when England realized that trade generated wealth. In his eyes, as well as in Robinson’s eyes, slave deal was no