Wk. 2 Benjamin Franklin & his writing on Native Americans

Benjamin Franklin depicts an interesting concept in his writing of "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America," that from their perspective, maybe the white people are actually the savages, not them. Just because they didn't have guns or as technically advanced of a society we automatically assumed that they were savages. He also talks about the idea of the "noble savage," that what is "civilized is natural." In the beginning of the settling of America the natural world was both beautiful but also threatening. I think it was the simple, easy, naturalness of these Native Americans that made the settlers feel threatened. After reading Franklin's autobiography and some of his works, Franklin seems to me to be the modern day version of Oprah.