Glorification of primitive cultures

Name(s): 
Romanticizing indigenous societies
Romanticizing traditional peoples
Claim 
Although some live close to the earth and its life forms, it is to no one's benefit to romanticize indigenous and traditional peoples. They themselves reject an 'ecologically nobme savage' approach that romanticizes their relationship with nature.
Broader 
Glorification of the past
Reduces 
Ill-considered pressure to eliminate nakedness in indigenous cultures
Aggravates 
Infanticide
Glorified emotionality
Lack of economic adaptation of indigenous systems
Undetermined procedures for adapting tradition-bound cultures
Aggravated by 
Cultural relativism
Strategy(ies) 
Romanticizing indigenous cultures
Pacifying the natives
Living with nature
Value(s) 
Primitive
Selfishness
Type 
(G) Very specific problems