As I am watching a video of Spanish conquest on the Aztec, I could not help but think how in over 500 years nothing has changed. People were killing and trying to change people's customs and beliefs then and they are still trying to do it now. Why do we feel a need as people to try try to change people's beliefs into our own? Isn't that the whole purpose of everyone being different is we all think differently and may not always agree? I see the similarities in issues we have today like the Iraq war and the ban over gay marriage. The similarites are the same as when the Spanish conquistadores did it, except were not leaving a deadly disease like smallpox behind. No person has the right to say, "I believe this so you should too."
The major question is, will it ever change? Or as people, are we always going to want to modify other people's way of thinking or beliefs? Why can't we just accept that everyone is different culturally and be satisfied with that?
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oh trisha---you've touched on some incredible points.
ReplyDeleteI was listening to NPR quite a few weeks ago and they were talking about something Obama said regarding the situation in the Middle East...and he said soemthing that struck me as bold - and really, quite true.
I am paraphrasing but to the effect of. it is necessary for people to stop looking back at ll the wrongs and start looking forward to our children. The reason that I believe that is so beautiful is because--and sometimes only a parent will understand this-- many things we will not do for ourselves-- but when you have a child, you start to do things that you would have never done before...for their sake.
And once we start realizing it isn't about us, but about our children, it really changes the perspective.
I think what you said is very true Trisha. One of the great problems is perhaps that we don't always understand impacts of culture clashes until we have hindsight. I am afraid that history repeats itself in how different cultures encounter each other. Until, potentially, we are one homogenous culture. That is a scary thought though!
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