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Why? I'm backing up the point you made.  |
No no, it's not you it's anthropology. I have to take it this semester for my natural science credit and I hate it. I did
really badly on the first test and I only have two others to fix it.
Anywho...
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Precisely. Just because a society may not be technologically advanced doesn't mean that they are as socially complex as our own
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That's why the term "noble savage" bothered me. It seemed to imply that people who lived in tribes or "uncivilized" places were inferior. Europeans thought that the native Africans were "savages", but the Africans were the ones who were smelting iron and enjoying a good standard of living while Europe rotted from the Black Plague.