Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America

This text is a proof how can be two cultures different from each other. It also shows us the subjunctive view of Europeans/Americans on Indian culture. And as well the way the Indians treat European/American customs and manners.

Here the word ‘savages’ is used for Indians. It is read that the settlers from beyond the sea called them that way because of their rules of common civility, religion, laws and culture. Of course the whole Indian lifestyle seemed weird for Americans, just as their own seemed not less weird for Indians.

This text provides some stories that should show us Indians, ‘who were so rude, as to be without any rules of politeness; nor so polite, as not to have some remains of rudeness’. The first thing that is discussed in the text is an education. The whole concept of education the Indians were used to differs greatly from that one Americans had. All the courses American youth had taken in colleges seemed goo...