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Similarly, European colonizers assumed societies with huts and simpler technology were less intelligent. Meanwhile countless indigenous societies like that turned out to have languages far more complicated and sophisticated than European languages, cultures and traditions more vast and diverse, and their values generally far more altruistic and socially connective. (And they focused on community and connection over material advancement, were limited by environmental or chance factors, and/or philosophically/ spiritually opposed to artificial means of living that disconnected themselves from nature)