The cultural sensitivity toward Native Americans that our society is renowned for

Two instances of pop-cultural bias came to light today:

Trish and I were looking at some romance novel I fished out of the trash in hopes of selling to a used book store or giving to a library rather than a waste dump. First, the title is Savage Surrender. Second, the plot is thus: white woman is kidnapped by the Iroquois, falls for one of them, and he for her. I'm sure you can imagine the examples of female non-empowerment contained therein, and also the cultural sensitivity toward Native Americans that our society is renowned for.

We saw a preview for a movie called The Pathfinder, about a Viking orphan left behind after a raid/war against Native Americans "600 years before Columbus." The boy grows up and when the Vikings return he fights them with all the Native American skills he's acquired. I told Trish that the moral of the story is that even though they're the good guys, the Native Americans still need a white man to fight for them. She agreed.

Anyway, bedtime.