Re: folklore/folktale question

moonlight.aileen@gmail.com said:
> Given that historically the dominant members of society (read: white
> colonists/settlers etc) saw the societies that they were subjugating
> (Indigenous populations, slaves, etc ad naeuseum) as being subhuman, I
> wonder if part of it arose from a need to justify their attraction to
> certain individuals.

Could be. I expect something was needed to justify treating some
subhumans as if they were real people. Without a justification,
one might start wondering why the others were treated so poorly.

I wonder if this sort of justification happened when Europeans started
invading Central and South America.

Wayne

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