difference between difference of Civilization and savage
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What is the difference between "civilized" and "savage"?
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The 'terms 'civilized' and 'savage' depend, like beauty, on the ideology of the beholder. For example, while it may seem civilized for us to squander hours of our precious lives sitting in cars on smog-filled highways, polluting the ozone layer and guzzling gas and other limited natural resources in order to get to work - this would appear uncivilized to -say an aborigine person who has been brought up with a deep love and respect for nature. Aborigines may have preferred to walk the bush for miles, living on 'the fat of the land' and have found this to be a very civilized way of life. It may be that a good measure is in how humans treat each other. The boys in 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding appear to start off as civilized but soon become savages in the way they mistreat one another.
Here, civilized means advanced, well mannered, socially developed and polite.
whereas savage means wild, uncontrolled and fierce.
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