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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: [qb] While it is definitely not true that Africans were totally uncivilized, I cannot help but notice there is a double standard with regards to different types of "primitive" peoples. For instance, Native Americans are commonly viewed as "noble savages" living in harmony with nature, yet Africans are stereotyped as evil ooga-booga primitives, even though both Native Americans and Africans had similar technological gaps to their European conquerors. Why do we view Native Americans' alleged primitiveness more positively than that of Africans? [/qb][/QUOTE]I personally think it had to do with a lot of the Westerns that were made and the fact that Africans in the media National Geographic and in American movies wre definitely portrayed in a certain naked "ooga booga" - (as you say) way until recently. Even the Roots series though well intended had an "ooga booga" quality about it rivaling some of the Tarzan movies in that respect. American Natives on the other hand are portrayed well in the late period of American movie making (although they usually didn't use real natives until recently either). After all most Americans only think sub-Saharan Africans have never lived in anything but huts today if not in the forest without shelter - even when there are millions living in well made attractive stone houses they've been accustomed to for thousands of years or else in modern Western-style homes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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