Who are the Amerindians?

"....the more I saw of Indians, the greater I was struck by their similarity to the English.
They like living with their own families at great distances from their neighbours; they regard strangers with suspicion and despair; they are unprogressive and unambitious, fond of pets, hunting and fishing; they are undemonstrative in love, unwarlike, morbidly modest; their chief aim seems to be on all occasions to render themselves inconspicuous."
Evelyn Waugh, 92 Days - Travels in Guiana and Brazil, pub: 1934