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Bullshit. Savages existed only in the pulp magazines that your grandpa used to read as a child. Since then, ethnologists have studied so-called primitive populations all over the world and came to the conclusion that their society was very structured with taboos and strong social norms. Native American tribes, despite not having any writing system for most of them, had nonetheless a lively oral tradition. Ancient Celtic and Germanic tribes too.
You think that Christmas is mainly a Christian celebration ? Then you're entirely wrong. Yule was a Germanic midwinter festival, whose origins get lost in the night of time.
The Proto-Indo-European society was probably shaped according to a tripartite ideology, reflected, in the European feudal system, the Hindu castes, in the three main deities of the Hindu and Norse mythology, and even in the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.
Concerning colonial Americans, they were maybe as English as the British governors who were ruling them, but at least they developed a self-awareness, a national consciousness
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