Stephen Schwartz! (Again)

So, I think Stephen Schwartz is kind of amazing. He's my favorite modern Theatre composer. I've already blogged about him - see "The Great Textbook Wars and Musical Theatre."

Anyway, he wrote the music for Wicked, and the lyrics for Pocahontas.
I'd like to take a closer look at the song, "Savages." 
Here's a link to it, in case you haven't seen the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSu4hOLYrXk. Unfortunately, the lyrics aren't in their original form, but that's only on one line. Near the beginning, Ratcliff says "Here's what you get when races are diverse," but the original words for that line were "There whole disgusting race is like a curse."

Anyway - I think the lines below sum up the prejudices many settlers and Native Americans might have had about each other.
"They're not like you an me, which means they must be evil!"
and later:
"They're different from us, which means they can't be trusted!"
They were afraid of each other because they didn't know anything about the other race. They weren't used to their customs or language or anything. I think that a lot of the problems between the English settlers and Native Americans stemmed from fear.

Also, 15 days left until NaNoWriMo.