Talk:Noble savage

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[edit] Widely used trope

It's also a widely used trope, e.g., Avatar being a notable user in recent years but think back to anything featuring "natives", Disney's glossing of Pocahontas, for instance. Scarlet A.pngmoral 14:36, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Avatar's use of the trope is only marginal, the central theme being New Age dreck about the Unity of Nature. Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX 14:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Purge the Xenos filth. ТyTalk. 14:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Huh? Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX 14:44, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
The trope is played sort of straight with the Na'vi but then leads on to the New Age dreck. I would say when it comes to promoting mysticism the two are quite well linked. Scarlet A.pngmoral 14:48, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
We should have an article on First Nations woo or Native American woo. How many times have I heard someone explain some health practice/dietary thing as being good "because that's what the Indians did." P-Foster (talk) 14:53, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
A very specific version of the appeal to nature. If there are many specific examples, it would be worth its own article. I'm sure people getting off their box on Peyote counts. Scarlet A.pngmoral 14:57, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
I seem to recall that WaitingforGodot wrote an article about the "plastic shaman" quacks back in the day. Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX 14:59, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
An article on the wp:Hopi is on my to-do list, but I want to finish the bloody comet first.--ZooGuard (talk) 15:04, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Broken ref

Why is the Ellingson reference (footnotes 1 and 9) broken? I can't seem to figure it out, but maybe it's just too close to bedtime. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 05:12, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

It seems to be some kind of bug with the navbar. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 05:27, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
It's a known bug with the "random article selection" thing in the navboxes - it borks the reference count, that's why a navbox needs to be the very first template in the article.--ZooGuard (talk) 11:32, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
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