Talk:Christopher Columbus/@comment-79.45.49.233-20171031212136/@comment-32879369-20171104042107

^ Well it shows us you haven't been dogmatized by public school or excessive patriotism. I am still inclined to believe in the old maxima, "Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit". Slaughter, rape and worst execrable actions aren't uniquely linked to the "male-caucasian-opressor-man". This book I just sourced demonstrates what Columbus did, but also states what ameridians did against rival tribes. In South America there were an artistic movement called "Indianism", the first phase of their "Romanticism". They portrayed the indian figure, exclusively as an idilic, peaceful and bucolic creature.

Recently they discovered in Brazil, the so called "sambaquis" (piles of limestone), are majorly composed by rests of human skeleton, discarding the past belief of this having exclusively animal origins. Archeologists are saying, in a determined period of history, after joining a conflict for territorial dispute, they pilled enemy corpses as a signal of dominance. It also breaks the "noble savage" myth.