The Savage Analysis

The first residents of the Americas were by modern estimates divided into at least two thousand cultures and more societies, practiced a multiplicity of customs and lifestyles, held an enormous variety of values and beliefs, spoke numerous languages mutually unintelligible to the many speakers, and did not conceive of themselves as a single people (Paul Lucas). But however, the Europeans and Euro-Americans came and classified these people(s) into a single identity, simplifying and homogenizing their identity into an inferior racial type: ‘the Savage’. The practices of colonial violence on indigenous people as depicted in the article clearly points out the effects of the Slave traffic during the first years after the 1521 conquest and the practice of branding

Despite high levels of Mexican immigration and strong pride in their Hispanic heritage, the primary language of most Mexican Americans has now become English, and with each new generation born in the United States the use of Spanish becomes less frequent in many families. Native Americans for example had as many as 300 languages spoken at the time of encounter (Aldama, Ch.2: Part I). However, as the European settlers came along they brought with them their own languages such as English and Spanish. Which over time has caused many Native American and Hispanic languages to disappear from common use and European languages, especially English to become widely used. The English language has now become the predominant language today in the United States with French spoken in some parts of Canada, and Spanish in most South American and Caribbean countries. These effects of European settlement in the Americas has in many ways impacted and also contributed immensely to the structural dynamics and cultural identity of these Native