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In Reply to: Showing the indians as savages.... posted by Mrs. Piggy on November 10, 2002 at 09:50:52:
And the whities too...
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With regard to native Americans, it depends on how you define "savages." In many respects they were/are a far more humane group of people than foolish "whities" can understand. Indeed, the "whities" easily out-savaged them. Hollywood can never show that in its full scope, because it's simply too damaging to the American self-image.
savages, just because many were fighters/warriors, so were we. I think the word has now come to mean that. I propose it was because the indians were MORE at the mercy of nature than the Europeans who squelched their culutre. That is the main difference between the two groups. The indians were more primative. Their community was more primitve by European standards. That, I feel is the reason for the term savage.mp
was very popular in 18th Century literature. The Indians were only Indians because Columbus got lost, and thought he'd found the mythical passage to India when he landed on American soil... now that's cultural imperialism for you!
Consider too that England and the English were only so named as Roman soldiers took a fancy to the warrior women of the British Isles and called them "Angles" (Angels), and that became "Angleland", Land Of the Angels, so even white folks got the Royal makeover tho' somewhat earlier...
Eric
Tokyo
this reminds me of a very good film i had forgotten about. it called 'black robe', and i recommend seeing it.it's about the european christian missionaries and the canadian indians. it compares and contrasts the two cultures. and it addresses the issue of 'savagery'.
if you don't get to see it, here are some conclusions it seems to arrive at:
1) indian culture was superior especially in the indian enviroment.
2) christian missionaries were misdirected.
3) indians really were savage by our sense of standards.
final score: indians 2, white man 1. :)
There is no superiority just differences.
whities as savages and not acceptable in the other direction.
I'm not making any judgement here by the way, the indians needed to be just as violent, another, more powerful, culture was overtaking them.
:o)
mp
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