nd killing their men.[19]

+17.+ When Caribs were asked whence they came, they answered, "We
alone are people."[20] The meaning of the name Kiowa is "real or
principal people."[21] The Lapps call themselves "men," or "human
beings."[22] The Greenland Eskimo think that Europeans have been
sent to Greenland to learn virtue and good manners from the
Greenlanders. Their highest form of praise for a European is that
he is, or soon will be, as good as a Greenlander.[23] The
Tunguses call themselves "men."[24] As a rule it is found that
nature peoples call themselves "men." Others are something
else--perhaps not defined--but not real men. In myths the origin
of their own tribe is that of the real human race. They do not
account for the others. The Ainos derive their name from that of
the first man, whom they worship as a god. Evidently the name of
the god is derived from the tribe name.[25] When the tribal name
has another sense, it is always boastful or proud. The Ovambo
name is a corruption of the name of the tribe for themselves,
which means "the wealthy."[26] Amongst the most remarkable people
in the world for ethnocentrism are the Seri of Lower California.
They observe an attitude of suspicion and hostility to all
outsiders, and strictly forbid marriage with outsiders.[27]

+18.+ The Jews divided all mankind into themselves and Gentiles.
They were the "chosen people." The Greeks and Romans called all
outsiders "barbarians." In Euripides' tragedy of _Iphigenia in
Aulis_ Iphigenia says that it is fitting that Greeks should rule
over barbarians, but not contrariwise, because Greeks are free,
and barbarians are slaves. The Arabs regarded themselves as the
noblest nation and all others as more or less barbarous.[28] In
1896, the Chinese minister of education and his counselors edited
a manual in which this statement occurs: "How grand and glorious
is the Empire of China, the middle kingdom! She is the largest
and richest in the world. The grandest men in the world have all
come from the middle empire."[29] In all the literature of all
the states equivalent statements occur, although they are not so
naively expressed. In Russian books and newspapers the civilizing
mission of Russia is talked about, just as, in the books and
journals of France, Germany, and the United States, the
civilizing mission of those countries