There Goes The Neighborhood

Ayanna Fourte
9/14/14
Period 1
Blog Entry #2

Imagine this: You are sitting in your house, it's calm and everybody is going about themselves when all of a sudden you hear somebody outside. They have a device that is projecting their voice so that everybody within 5 blocks can hear. They say "ATTENTION EVERYONE. WE ARE NOT HERE TO HARM YOU BUT WE ARE HERE TO TRADE MATERIALS...AND MAYBE TAKE A FEW OF YOU BACK TO WHERE WE ARE FROM". What would you do? The native people had strong values, they believed in welcoming all and treating people nicely. Columbus would believe that they were not intelligent but I would disagree. I believe that they were just slightly naive to these foreign things that the settlers were showing them. If I asked what Blanquette de Veau was, most Americans would not know that it's a French veal dish because it's foreign and most of us don't see it everyday. Conflicts that can occur when two or more groups of people come together that have a different race, culture, religion etc is superiority and racism. We aren't seeing it as much because now it's more so on the down low because it's no longer seen as how you're supposed to feel. Today people promote seeing everyone as equals but there are still plenty of people in this world that think they are superior to others and that's where things can clash. Columbus definitely thought he was superior. He had the mindset that the native people weren't smart, he could trick them, he could spread his religion through them because they obviously had no religion and that he could just come in and get their gold.