American Savages

Benjamin Franklin wrote "About savage people in North America", indicating that Native Americans are not "barbarians". Americans believe that their habits and lifestyles are very different, so Native Americans are "barbarians". The responsibility that was important for Americans then was not important for Indians. "Compared with them, the difficult lifestyle of their lives, they respect slaves, foundations, learning, I think that we consider themselves to be boring and useless" (226).

The word "barbarian" began to contradict the word "noble barbarian". Earlier American writers portrayed "noble barbarians" as safe deaths and historical past tense. Of course, Pocahontas graciously entered the soft shoes of "noble savage man". She consciously cited it because she embodied the image specified unconsciously. According to Mander (1991), the primary image of the Indians in early movies was "barbarians" and John Wayne led the American cavalry against the Indians. Today, this stereotype has been transformed into "noble barbarians in India" - it is a part of a dead culture once you can talk about grandmother-like trees and animals that protect nature like Meeko and Flit Yes.

About 50 years ago, literary researcher Roy Harvey Pierce is on his book "American Barbarians: Studies of India and Civilization" (1953; Revised Edition, "Sawagism and Civilization: Studies of India and Civilization") It was. "American Heart published in 1965" indicates that this assumption is a basis for investigating the image of American Indians. As for Indian, he writes that American white people talk about themselves, in short, a stereotype tells us more about perception.