The (Amer)Indians, I learned later, are a solitary people and it takes many hours heavy drinking to arouse any social interests in them. In fact, the more I saw of (Amer)Indians the greater I was struck by their similarity to the English. They like living with their own families, at great distances from their neighbours; they regard strangers with suspicion and despair; they are unprogressive and unambitious, fond of pets, hunting and fishing; they are undemonstrative in love, unwarlike, morbidly modest; their chief aim seems to be on all occasions to render themselves inconspicuous... [Ninety-two days: A journey in Guiana and Brazil, Evelyn Waugh 1934]
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