<span>human beings in general; humankind.</span>
That words would be
"Dummy" or "fraud" or "cheat"
<span>Blaeser, in "Rituals of Memory," expresses being torn when she was in school, as school signified the beginning of her acting differently while in school and while out of school. She was both German Catholic and Native American, and her family pulled her in a different direction than she wanted to go. To compensate, she learned both German and a Native American language, Anishinaabe, and she considered later in life how the German and Native American communities of her rural Minnesotan home coexisted.</span>
I believe that the correct answer here is the first option.
Here we see a narrator who is addressing a fight that has already happened and here we see that he is pride. We see that in his clear opinion of the fighting and the belief in his skill, because he would not wait for darkness, because he would not need that, as he is certain that he is good enough to win a fight in broad daylight. Here we see the narrators pride.