Bar bar that's how the Greeks who fought at Thermopylae and Salamis experienced the Persians. It sounded like they were saying Bar bar bar bar instead of real speaking. The Greeks knew that Darius was a powerful KIng -- not a primitive, but they thought he was a Barbarian savage.Iran today same thing -- barbarian savages -- their women walk around in Bhurkas. Any abos in Australia do that. How about people in Patagonia, or way up on the Amazon, or in Papua New Guinea deep the the jungle? Anybody there in Bhurkas. Any sex slaves. Any beheadings? Any cutting off of hands or tounges? How about Harems any of that? How about killing of infidels? No?Well, those are certainly primitive enough cultures, right? They have no nuclear bombs or nuclear reactors. They have no missiles, no radar, no fighter jets, no radio, no TV, no newspapers, no telephones, no electricity --- pretty primitive right?But not barbarian savages. Not like Iran, or North Korea, or Iraq, or Yemen, or Saudi Arabia (never have any people been given so much opportunity to evolve and yet declined to do so).Let's help out the primitives. Let's just say "No" to the barbarian savages.You want a compass point for US diplomacy -- How about that one?

That really doesn't help as far as developing better diplomatic policy. but its a nice start on a discourse about semantics.