However, it does seem that "primitive" irritates them beyond any of the others. Perhaps it's just too true... 
You know, madam, I'm very sorry use of that word to describe the primitives bothers the primitives--and it does, really--but there
is a thing such as a "Truth in Labeling" law; one is compelled to call a product what that product is.
To call the primitives "geniuses" or "sophisticates" or "caring people" or "literate" would be a lie.
One should call things what they are, and in this case, the primitives on Skins's island are very similar with what Margaret Mead was finding in the South Seas eighty years ago, what with the castes, the taboos, the totems, the rituals and ceremonies, the superstitions, the gods and the anti-gods, the body decorations and mutilations, as they are on Skins's island.
Of course, the significant difference is that the natives of the South Seas were trying to live in an environment generally hostile to them, while our own primitives, generally of affluent European derivation, exist in an environment that not only tolerates them, but allows them to flourish and prosper at everybody else's expense and trouble.
