--- On Tue, 2/9/10, Ken O'Neill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


> The noble savage ideology is the work
> of privileged white European male
> scholars of a few centuries ago, 


Quite a few centuries ago, actually.  I think it was Tacitus in the 1st century who started it, although I'm not sure if Herodotus, 500 years earlier, bought into the noble savage myth as well.  Have to check that one out.  At that time, though, it was the Pax Romana rather than the white man's burden, as the Germans whom T. eulogized were blolnder than he.

Andrea