The Othered Indian, Culture Appropriation, and Formation of National Identity in The Last of the Mohicans
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In The Last of the Mohicans , Cooper renders some truthful historical events, and also presents some romantic creation. Under the pen of Cooper, the native Indian are deprived of the historical visage. The deprivation is an othering process in order to establish the superiority of the white, a kind of the white’s colonizing strategy. Along with the othering process, the white undergo the process of cultural appropriation. In the contact with the Indian, the white unconsciously and slowly assimilate the Indian’s skills and wisdom for a better adaptation in the unfamiliar world. Therefore, the novel essentially reveals the white’s contradictory attitudes towards the native tribes. On the one hand, as the more civilized group, the white consciously differentiate themselves from the native, and tried to build their superiority. On the other hand, the wisdom and culture of the Indian are beneficial for the white’s adaptation in North America, and the Indian’s tradition and qualities are more or less admired by these out-comers. Behind the contradictory attitudes toward the native lies the white’s ambition to establish a new national identity centered on the white group.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".