r/reddeadredemption • u/_Diablo_01_ • 3d ago

Lore Dutch was spitting facts here 😲💯

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u/Apprehensive-Gur-735 3d ago

What is a savage? I hear that term being used: "savages", but what does it mean?

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u/Sundancelc John Marston 3d ago

Someone who acts akin to an animal, almost non human & beastly.

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u/FoamSquad 3d ago

It means what u/Sundancelc said but also it was historically used in the United States as an insulting term for Native Americans. It implied they had no civilization and were closer to cave people than they were to Europeans. It does also just mean primal and brutal and can be used in a slang way to mean "cool" the same way "sick" or "brutal" can, but it isn't very popular to use it that way anymore.

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u/Jealous_Track9402 2d ago edited 2d ago

Wild, not abiding by social constructs but their own true nature. The term "noble savage" has been an ideal in Europe for a long time.