when i hear the words ‘noble savage’ i want to throw up
a good example of why romantic-era white people were really stupid comes from the shaman’s coat: a native history of siberia
in which anna reid relates the tale of a european explorer who, a couple hundred years ago, makes contact with the ainu people of northern sakhalin island, which is north of japan
and basically waxes poetic about how great their culture is -they’re polite, refined, they’ve had contact with the japanese, and basically implies or states outright that they are generally superior to europeans culturally
then suggests showing them off in a zoo
fuck you, white people
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how often do you
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parchemin said:
HAHAHA I HATE THAT BOOK OMG
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