The savage is afraid of strange appearances; the difficulties and dangers that beset his career cause him to scent danger in anything new which he does not understand and which he cannot assign to a familiar category. Civilization, however, transforms this affectation into its very opposite. Whatever is exceptional, bizarre, or conspicuous, or whatever departs from the customary norm, exercises a peculiar charm upon the man of culture, entirely independent of its material justification.

DEFINE: Contrasts the 'savage' fear of novelty with civilization's attraction to the exceptional, framing a shift in emotional response to the unfamiliar.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 719