Individualist everyman-hero white-guy archetypes describing large groups have existed since ~1100. For Indians only since ~1857
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I suspect earlier examples included more negative archetypes to be resisted than valorization of coginess or other static roles.
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Makes sense. Indivualism = maverick in harder times. "Normal" individualism requires more tech and impersonal civilization institutions.
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