Put yourself in this scenario: You’re at your
house, just chillaxing without having a care in the world, and all of sudden
you hear some ruckus outside. You get up and look outside your window, and you
notice something odd. Whether it’s a group of young hooligans, general weirdos
or whatever other outcasts you aren't familiar with, it’s a group of people you
and your neighborhood have never seen before. Now, you’re not biased, you are a
kind and welcoming person who is excited to meet and greet these new people and
make them feel at home in their new society…
They however, are not nearly
as courteous, and despite you and your neighbors attempt to welcome them, they
don’t pay you any heed or respect as they trample all over the things you find
precious without much care, taking your food and resources, making their own settlements
over your land, and blatantly disregarding your existence and best wishes.
This scene that you’ve
imagined yourself in is that of the Native Americans when the explorers of
Europe came to their continent. This is of course a major injustice towards
humanity in general, and a completely shameful occurrence to the Native people.
What makes this even worse if how their history is taught today, as us settlers
aren’t painted in such an ugly color. It’s unfair for events like this to
happen to any group of people, but the only away for us to realize that is if
it happens to us.
Aidan-kun,
ReplyDeleteVery descriptive my friend! Yoou connected what could happen anytime to what happened centuries ago seamlessly. Anyone new to America and it's history can just look at this and understand the New World-era from the Native American perspective. Only thing I want to say is that it might happen to us man. Aliens are only a matter of time away. Just saying