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Old Mar 7th, 2009, 02:18 PM       
Is it just me or is the term "noble savage" kind of...derogatory? Like "magical negro"?

It almost reminds me of in "Take Up the White Man's Burden", when the nonEuropean people are described as "sullen" and "half devil and half child".
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