In Benjamin Franklin’s “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” what differences do you see in the native Americans’ concepts of education and proper conduct and the colonists’ concept of it? Consider the perspective from which these ideas are presented (Franklin’s) and how that would affect our understanding of it.
Which group of people–colonists or natives–seems more civilized? Why?
What do these readings show us about what one culture can learn from the other, and vice versa? How does this learning happen?
Does this reading reveal anything about our attitudes now when it comes to civility towards each other? Can it teach us something about our attitudes towards interacting with different cultures and the way we should deal with it?
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