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?
Sunday, February 15, 2009
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