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* CommonKnowledge: Most people who haven't read the original book seem to think Friday is black. A famous example is Creator/ToniMorrison's essay "Race-ing Justice, Engendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality." This also extends to several adaptations, including the NBC series, ''Crusoe'', which starred Philip Winchester and Tongayi Chirisa, who is from Zimbabwe.
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* FairForItsDay: Though violently disgusted by the cannibals, Crusoe ultimately decides against an offensive attack using arguments surprisingly close to modern cultural relativism. He also points out that Europeans (namely, the Spanish) are guilty of many atrocities in the New World themselves. When he finally does attack the cannibals, it's specifically to save people's lives.
--> I debated this very often with myself thus: "How do I know what God Himself judges in this particular case? It is certain these people do not commit this as a crime; it is not against their own consciences reproving, or their light reproaching them; they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of divine justice, as we do in almost all the sins we commit. They think it no more a crime to kill a captive taken in war than we do to kill an ox; or to eat human flesh than we do to eat mutton."
--> I debated this very often with myself thus: "How do I know what God Himself judges in this particular case? It is certain these people do not commit this as a crime; it is not against their own consciences reproving, or their light reproaching them; they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of divine justice, as we do in almost all the sins we commit. They think it no more a crime to kill a captive taken in war than we do to kill an ox; or to eat human flesh than we do to eat mutton."
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* FairForItsDay: FairForItsDay:
** Though violently disgusted by the cannibals, Crusoe ultimately decides against an offensive attack using arguments surprisingly close to modern cultural relativism. He also points out that Europeans (namely, the Spanish) are guilty of many atrocities in the New World themselves. When he finally does attack the cannibals, it's specifically to save people's lives.
--> ---> I debated this very often with myself thus: "How do I know what God Himself judges in this particular case? It is certain these people do not commit this as a crime; it is not against their own consciences reproving, or their light reproaching them; they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of divine justice, as we do in almost all the sins we commit. They think it no more a crime to kill a captive taken in war than we do to kill an ox; or to eat human flesh than we do to eat mutton."
** Though violently disgusted by the cannibals, Crusoe ultimately decides against an offensive attack using arguments surprisingly close to modern cultural relativism. He also points out that Europeans (namely, the Spanish) are guilty of many atrocities in the New World themselves. When he finally does attack the cannibals, it's specifically to save people's lives.
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** CommonKnowledge: Most people who haven't read the original book seem to think Friday is black. A famous example is Creator/ToniMorrison's essay "Race-ing Justice, Engendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality." This also extends to several adaptations, including the NBC series, ''Crusoe'', which starred Philip Winchester and Tongayi Chirisa, who is from Zimbabwe.
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* ValuesDissonance: Most notable in Friday's total subservience to his white master and complete willingness to let himself be remade in the European image. Considered downright racist today, especially since Crusoe never teaches Friday his own name and tells him to refer to him as 'Master'.
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* ValuesDissonance: ValuesDissonance:
** Most notable in Friday's total subservience to his white master and complete willingness to let himself be remade in the European image. Considered downright racist today, especially since Crusoe never teaches Friday his own name and tells him to refer to him as 'Master'.
** Most notable in Friday's total subservience to his white master and complete willingness to let himself be remade in the European image. Considered downright racist today, especially since Crusoe never teaches Friday his own name and tells him to refer to him as 'Master'.
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* ValuesDissonance: Most notable in Friday's total subservience to his white master and complete willingness to let himself be remade in the European image. Considered downright racist today, especially since he never teaches Friday his own name and tells him to refer to him as 'Master'.
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* ValuesDissonance: Most notable in Friday's total subservience to his white master and complete willingness to let himself be remade in the European image. Considered downright racist today, especially since he Crusoe never teaches Friday his own name and tells him to refer to him as 'Master'.
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** Crusoe is also very much okay with slavery, as he sells his companion Xury into the service of a Portuguese captain (albeit with the encouragement of Xury himself, as well as the promise that Xury will be released in ten years if he converts to Christianity), owns a slave on his plantation, and conducts the voyage which ultimately results in his shipwreck in order to trade for more slaves.
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** Crusoe is also very much okay with slavery, as he sells his companion Xury into the service of a Portuguese captain (albeit with the encouragement of Xury himself, as well as the promise that Xury will be released in ten years if he converts to Christianity), owns a slave on his plantation, and conducts the voyage which ultimately results in his shipwreck in order to trade for more slaves.slaves.
** In ''The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'', Crusoe attacks Siberian natives for performing their pagan rites, destroys their idol, and insults the Russian settlers for not doing everything within their power to convert the locals into Christianity. Today, that would be the peak of intolerant behavior.
** In ''The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'', Crusoe attacks Siberian natives for performing their pagan rites, destroys their idol, and insults the Russian settlers for not doing everything within their power to convert the locals into Christianity. Today, that would be the peak of intolerant behavior.
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* ValuesDissonance: Most notable in Friday's total subservience to his white master and complete willingness to let himself be remade in the European image. Considered downright racist today.
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* ValuesDissonance: Most notable in Friday's total subservience to his white master and complete willingness to let himself be remade in the European image. Considered downright racist today.today, especially since he never teaches Friday his own name and tells him to refer to him as 'Master'.
