Blog 2 Reply/Reaction to Gabrielle Gomez Post

This is also a question I have been thinking about. Who is civilized and who is barbaric? It is kind of funny, but not really funny, to think about how the Europeans automatically inherited the ability to rule over the indigenous just because they are from Europe, I guess. The ironic thing is that they call the natives barbarians along with "savages" as Sarmiento describes them, but you have a point. The elite Europeans are the ones acting as savages. What determines whether a group of people is barbaric or civilized? I feel like the word barbaric kind of has two meanings being: 1) cruel or brutal and 2) inferior or unsophisticated and primitive. So I guess if we look at the two groups, the Europeans and their ideas like you said, probably are considered to be barbaric as in cruel and brutal. While at the time, the indigenous were kind of automatically "considered" to be primitive, unsophisticated and inferior to the Spanish which apparently makes it right for them to punish them and treat them in a cruel manner? Oh history. It befuddles me.