How did this cliche ever begin? The usual presumptuous guess based on western 19th and early 20th century idea that primitive people were most certainly dumb brutes. “We deduce through our vast superiority that they hit each with clubs a lot, and grunted, and most assuredly said ’Ook ook.” Of course, the characters in B.C. are none too bright anyway. And we haven’t even met Grog yet.
How did this cliche ever begin? The usual presumptuous guess based on western 19th and early 20th century idea that primitive people were most certainly dumb brutes. “We deduce through our vast superiority that they hit each with clubs a lot, and grunted, and most assuredly said ’Ook ook.” Of course, the characters in B.C. are none too bright anyway. And we haven’t even met Grog yet.