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![Savages, The]() Savages, The (2007)
IMDB rating: 8.20
Plot: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Directors: Jenkins Tamara
Actors: Hoffman Philip Seymour,Bosco Philip,Friedman Peter,Zayas David,Akinnagbe Gbenga,Boyd Guy,Blankenship Hal,Ludwig Salem,Comedy,Drama,
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what is the origin of the following stereotype: indians are uncivilized savages?
please post a link to the website where you found this information.
r u talking native americans or Indian indians
wes | Oct 26, 2007
RED INDIAN - "An offensive name for Native Americans, but a historical term applied by the British to North American Indians, apparently because of ‘their copper-colored skin’ and to distinguish them semantically from the Indians of India. From ‘Red Indian’ came the derogatory word redskin." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
LOS INDIOS, INDIAN, SAVAGE, NOBLE SAVAGE — "Since the original inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere neither called themselves by a single term nor understood themselves as a collectivity, the idea and image of the Indian must be a White concept..The term ‘Indian’ as a general designation for the inhabitants of North and South America in addition to some Asians stems from the erroneous geography of Christopher Columbus. Under the impression he had landed among the islands off Asia, he called the peoples he met ‘los Indios.’ Although he quite self-consciously gave new names to islands upon his first voyage, his application of the term ‘Indios’ seems to have been almost casual."
Seventeenth-century Frenchmen, Italians, and Englishmen generally employed a variant of the Latin ’silvaticus,’ meaning a forest inhabitant or man of the woods, for the Indian as the earlier spellings of ’saulvage,’ ’salvaticho,’ and ’salvage’ show so well in each of the respective languages. English usage switched from ’savage’ to ‘Indian’ as the general term for Native Americans in the seventeenth century, but the French continued to use ’sauvage’ as the preferred word into the nineteenth century. The original image behind this terminology probably derives from the ancient one associated with the ‘wild man,’ or ‘wilder Mann’ in Germany."
thisisme | Oct 26, 2007
No website posted. Origin comes from there lack of education and a few other things back in the day Whites and Indians were settleing the land. They were forced from the land they occupied , introduced to whiskey, had there wives taken from them, there was torture in some cases, and with this, they were just rebelious and reacted in only the way they knew.Plus there was a difference in language too.
carla b | Oct 26, 2007
My son did a report on Native Americans. It was very detailed - A+. We did a lot of research for this and one of our acquaintances came over and gave us a lot of info that was handed down to him from generation to generation. He is a Native American and was very interesting. He gave my son a blessing to use and a ritual handing over of some sweet grass.
The arrogant white men are the ones that stereotyped them as savages because of the way they lived and acted, which was different than them. Typical isn’t it? Just like today in some instances. Funny how they called them savages but it was the Natives that got them through the winter and taught them how to live and hunt in the new world.
Natives are mostly lactose intolerant.
Natives did not use alcohol before the white man came.
They did not use seasonings on their food like the white man.
They also bathed quite regularly. The white men did not and could be smelled a mile away. That’s how they knew white men were around - they smelled.
They had their own religion, and our constitution is set up like that of the Seneca Nation.
Morgana | Oct 26, 2007
That was the view of Europeans, who compared everyone to their own view of civilization. To them, being civilized meant reading and writing, fancy clothes, permanent settlements, Christianity (and the associated morality), and mechanical invention. The less one fit that stereotype, the less civilized one was.
Nightwind | Oct 26, 2007
i guess back then white men didn’t understand other races
culture,so to them it was savage and uncivilized hence destroying whatever they touched
treekgomon | Oct 26, 2007
That was just a racist term used to describe the fighting tactics of the Real Americans. The ones who were defending themselves from foreign invaders.
Yahoo | Oct 26, 2007
I am not aware of any website to link the information which you have mentioned. Perhaps it might have been addressed to the American red Indians.
sreenivasa m | Oct 27, 2007
They had a different culture from the Europeans, so the result was that the European setltlers considered them savages. Plus, it becomes a lot easier to steal someone else’s land if you dehumanize them by calling them names like that.
Di Monique | Oct 27, 2007
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