The early 20th Century was a time of exploration and research into the elucidation of race-based mythology regarding the innate inferiority of non-European peoples.
The displays often emphasized the cultural differences between Europeans of Western civilization and non-European peoples.
The local Guanches have the distinction of being the first non-European people to be wiped out by European expansion.
However, Melanesians of some islands are one of the few non-European peoples and the only dark-skinned group of humans known to have blond hair.
His view of the actions of non-european peoples was, by force of his status as a guest in the places he studied, a laissez-faire one.
At the Columbian Exposition of 1893, he exhibited an ethnographical collection from 25 non-European peoples.
Stimson's mentor, Theodore Roosevelt, did not believe "in equality or in self-determination for the world's non-European peoples," as Mr. Hodgson reminds us.
Fieldwork: Empirical description of cross-cultural data (as opposed to armchair philosophy; Bastian himself spent much of his adult life among non-European peoples).
It is also clear that the motivation behind such legislation is a reaction to "multiculturalism" and the history of European brutality toward non-Christian, non-European peoples.
