"When we the 'Westerners' call people 'Natives' we implicitly take the cultural color out of our perception of them. We see them as wild animals infesting the country in which we happen to come across them as part of the local flora and fauna and not as men of like passions with ourselves. So long as we think of them as 'natives' , we may exterminate them, or , as is more likely today, domesticate them and honestly (perhaps not altogether mistakenly) believe that we are improving the breed, but we do not begin to understand them."
Arnold Toynbee
A writer held in very high regard everywhere and of course you see his statement here revealing a common observation All seems wonderful till you see the part within brackets that betrays the underlying thought
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See the bracketed comment " Not altogether. . . ."
So somewhere the difference of the Westerner being Cultured knowledgeable from the poor fellow belonging to uncultured class becomes obvious
They are never equal even in the eyes of the most unbiased
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