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.
moral 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.
ListenerXTalkerX 14:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
- Purge the Xenos filth. ТyTalk. 14:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
- Huh?
ListenerXTalkerX 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.
moral 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.
moral 14:57, 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- Huh?
- Purge the Xenos filth. ТyTalk. 14:41, 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)