Abstract
When the seesaw moves it carries a similar group of passengers at each end. Occasionally, during the swing of the seesaw, one passenger seems to stand out from the others. In the late 1960s that passenger was black. There arose a new veneration for the noble savage, and the concept of the savage was so widened that much of Africa, Asia as well as the favoured Pacific islands shared in the new veneration. As the Europeans and Americans who idolised a simple way of life were essentially showing a distaste for their own civilisation, there was little limit to the variety of remote societies for which they could feel sympathy — so long as crucial facets of those societies were the polar opposite of their own.
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