GEG 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Edward Said, Quadroon, Eurocentrism
1 Nov 2016
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Stereotypes and caricatures in canadian law and policy assimilation: forced change. At the time of first contact, there was not a great deal of effort to distinguish different types of indigenous groups. Similar thing happened with inuit people, they were all labeled eskimos . Linguistics, geography, culture were not accounted for. We essentially homogenized them, and this language stuck with them this was done in an attempt to understand humanity in a way that they already recognize. First ideas of indians were depicted as wild men . Picts: images of indians largely based on scottish images of warriors. Indigenous peoples were considered to be savages because they were unable to identify with. Christianity in the same way that europeans did. They were able to think like humans, but not pray like them. Thomas hobbes reffered to people as savages within the state of nature. If we take away the laws of society, people will revert to a savage lifestyle.
