Editing Noble savage (section)

===Kingdom of Spain===
In the 15th century, soon after [[Discovery of America|arriving to the Americas]] in 1492, the Europeans employed the term ''savage'' to dehumanise the ''indigènes'' (noble-savage natives) of the newly discovered "[[New World]]" as ideological justification for the [[European colonization of the Americas]], called the Age of Discovery (1492–1800); thus with the [[Dehumanization|dehumanizing]] stereotypes of the ''noble savage'' and the ''indigène'', the ''savage'' and the ''wild man'' the Europeans granted themselves the right to colonize the natives inhabiting the islands and the continental lands of the northern, the central, and the southern Americas.<ref>Borsboom, Ad. ''The Savage in European Social Thought: A Prelude to the Conceptualization of the Divergent Peoples and Cultures of Australia and Oceania'' (1988) KILTV, p. 419.</ref>

The [[conquistador]] mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the [[New Spain|Viceroyalty of New Spain]] (1521–1821) eventually produced bad-conscience recriminations amongst the European intelligentsias for and against colonialism.<ref>Anthony Pagden, ''The Fall of the Natural Man: the American Indian and the origins of comparative ethnology. Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies.''(Cambridge University Press, 1982)</ref> As the Roman Catholic Bishop of [[Chiapas]], the priest [[Bartolomé de las Casas]] witnessed the enslavement of the ''indigènes'' of New Spain, yet idealized them into morally innocent noble savages living a simple life in harmony with Mother Nature. At the [[Valladolid debate]] (1550–1551) of the moral philosophy of enslaving the native peoples of the Spanish colonies, Bishop de las Casas reported the noble-savage culture of the natives, especially noting their plain-manner [[Etiquette|social etiquette]] and that they did not have the social custom of telling lies.