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Old Mar 7th, 2009, 06:20 PM       
not really similar at all its basically an anarchist/optimistic idea that if there were no society man would be perfect. Or, that society is what creates bad and evil people.
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Old Mar 7th, 2009, 08:40 PM       
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not really similar at all its basically an anarchist/optimistic idea that if there were no society man would be perfect. Or, that society is what creates bad and evil people.
I get it. Just seems a little rude the way it's put. That's probably just me though.
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Old Mar 7th, 2009, 10:54 PM       
The notion of the noble savage is just horseshit. Anyone who believes it should spend a year among the Yanomano or the Korowai and see how "noble" their behavior is from our point of view.

I can say this with a certain amount of authority because I just got accepted into graduate school to get a master's in anthropology. BOOYAH! :smug
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Old Mar 7th, 2009, 11:39 PM       
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The notion of the noble savage is just horseshit. Anyone who believes it should spend a year among the Yanomano or the Korowai and see how "noble" their behavior is from our point of view.

I can say this with a certain amount of authority because I just got accepted into graduate school to get a master's in anthropology. BOOYAH! :smug
I hate you.

Actually, it's anthropology I hate.
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Old Mar 7th, 2009, 11:49 PM       
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I hate you.

Actually, it's anthropology I hate.
Why? I'm backing up the point you made.
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Old Mar 8th, 2009, 01:07 AM       
tribes are a type of society, as such the argument could be made that they corrupt human beings.

But yea, usually people bring that type of stuff up to refute it.
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Old Mar 8th, 2009, 03:08 AM       
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tribes are a type of society, as such the argument could be made that they corrupt human beings.
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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Old Mar 9th, 2009, 01:58 PM       
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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.

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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
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.
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Old Mar 9th, 2009, 02:16 PM       
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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.
I assume it was physical anthropology, which I'm not to crazy about either, for the record. My area is cultural anthropology, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax.
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