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Does Richardson See The Sawi As People?

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Does Richardson see the Sawi as people? This is a bit of a confusing question. How else would he see them? Some people say that it can be difficult to see people so different from ourselves as human. Yet, what does that mean, seeing them as human? Is this implying that Richardson sees the Sawi people as animals? No, but he definitely saw them differently in the beginning of his mission.
In a world as revolutionary as our own, it can be hard for us to imagine a world seemingly trapped in the past. Even Richardson, a man trained to live among a world such as this, could not be without feelings of separation and distance from the Sawi people. Sometimes, even with people in our homelands, we don’t take the necessary time to see things their way. The ways of the Sawi were so different from what Richardson was used to that it “dehumanized them” However, what you have to realize, is that humans are humans. We’re different in some ways, but we’re all human. …show more content…

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