Re comment:- > 
"> The noble savage ideology is the work of privileged white European male
> scholars of a few centuries ago, themselves tool for colonial imperialism -"


 

Not really. The noble savage theory has been around for thousands of years. For example, Tacitus the Roman overly  idealised the Gaulish savages in much the same way:-

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage#Attributes_of_Romantic_Primitivism

 

 

 

 
 		 	   		  
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