Sunday, September 26, 2010
A Native American Outlook
As I look at this society with all its shinning glory and presentation, I feel as though it lacks some major aspects that my society back home holds center stage. We as a tribe seem to have very different customs when it comes to hospitality, manners, and treatment of others; when a starving person is on your streets, you either ignore them or give them small change, but in my village, if a starving person is on the road we bring them into our home and feed and cloth them as if they were our family. I think our standards and biefs on treating others is very differnt, we treat everyone with equal respect, while ive seen your people be hostile and even violent towards someone because of the color of their skin. This society might be much farther advanced in technology, but its people are regressed to the manners and personality of the earliest people.
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When you write these ideas, you obviously are paying attention to Franklin's description. The Indians were certainly different in their attitudes, and they did have some disdain for the whites. According to the book 1491, many of the whites actually joined tribes because they found the life there preferable to the life in the towns and villages of the colonies. That book also advances the idea that it was not the superior technology of the whites that allowed them to win the wars; it was the disease that was spreading among the Indians both in New England and through Central and South America. These things are certainly worth some consideration.
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