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People of a European descent may never be aware of any stereotypical opinions portrayed by Europeans, yet a large portion of what the general public in America learn contains stereotypical opinions about other cultures. A person living in the United States should not help but notice the slandering misrepresentations of the indigenous people. Many times literacy from another culture chooses to use a layout and wording selection that contribute to idealization of the culture being portrayed; thus, literacy from a non-European culture can many times be shaped and influenced with a particular cultures surroundings. For example, in the movie Where the Spirit Lives, we learned that Native-Americans were looked upon as being savages and very illiterate in the past. Thus, people of a non-European culture may find many words used by Europeans as unfair and incorrect due to the fact that many of the words cultures’ use have different meanings to different indigenous cultures. People of a non-Native descent are under a certain type of literacy inferiority to their surrounding cultures and many times their cultures literacy and identity can be altered. This is due to the fact that the Europeans pressured other cultures to be more “li