![]() ![]() The chapter then followed with a large amount of detail about how the Indians of America were compared by the new English settlers to their well known rivals the Irish. The Irish were known as savages by the English simply by their daily actions and level of intelligence. Takaki starts out this chapter by focusing on the English and their efforts to take over the “savage” people also known as the Irish in the 1600s. However, with more history came the eventual change of the word “savage”, which it is now commonly associated with racial ties and skin color issues. The main message Takaki was trying to the audience to understood dealt with the how the term “savage” did not originally mean a person with a different colored complextion but by a person’s actions only. ![]() In chapter 2 The “Tempest” in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery of the book A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki, the start of the origins of cultural and race problems were talked about. ![]()
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