Exercise One-- Columbus Columbus describes the people he first encountered as having hair that hung over the eyebrows and hair that was uncut and they were naked. He also speaks of them being fairly tall, good looking and well built. It appears to me that Columbus and his people were curious about the Natives they encountered. However, I am disappointed to read that he spoke of manipulating them by being friendly to them in order to free them and convert them to their religion. He (they) assumed if The Natives didn’t have their “Holy Faith”, than The Natives had none at all.
Cortes and his crew arrived in Mexico and they too discovered that the Native Americans were very welcoming. The Native Americans were not warlike at all. They did not have the kind of weapons that these men had. Columbus talked about the weapons the Native Americans had. Columbus wrote, “I showed them swords which they grasped by the blades, and cut themselves through ignorance.
The greatest problem is that we keep calling things “art” without regard to the objects' original purpose as given to them by those indigenous people who used or fabricated them in the first place. It is a fact, that in the many cultures whose products we call “primitive art,” there has been no concept of “art” in the contemporary West-European understanding of this word. Certainly there have been cultures that have developed a different understanding and appreciation of objects. Though, in many cases their primal role and worthiness stays hidden in the history, because there is no one left to be asked if there was an aesthetic evaluation present or if there was any concept of “art” at all. So, when we find the remains of an older culture, we simply apply our “Western” values and use our “Western” points of views.
The Spanish described the natives as lost people, generations of knowing no civilization or the riches life could bring. They were simple, routines of their daily lives not varying greatly. La Perouse described these California natives as, “in general diminutive and weak, and exhibit none of that love of independence and liberty which characterize the nations of the north, of whom they possess neither the arts of the north.” (28) The Spaniards considered the natives weak and female due to the lack of authority and no signs of an economy present; no armies, no explorers, no royalty, and no
The Europeans may have thoDidught of the Indians as savages and seen as them very different than themselves because of some fundamental differences in their attitudes, as well as some societal advances and practices that were completely foreign to the Indians. Upon arriving in the new world the Europeans were almost guaranteed to encounter some new things that they would not have the education, open-mindedness, or ability to understand and empathize with. Many of the first encounters natives had with the English were peaceful and mutually beneficial. The Indians had never seen the type of equipment, animals, or mindset the Europeans had. Imagine living your
This proves that Scrooge had a luxury shelter and never been force to go to a workhouse or a poor house. Wealthy and ignorant, Scrooge doesn’t give money to the gentlemen, because he doesn’t care if the people have to go to a poorhouse or a workhouse, because he never had the experience of being poor. This also proves, that Scrooge doesn’t think it is his business to interfere with other people’s business (only his own business). He thought that he should not take care of the poor, only himself, because he does not
This sample was then compared to a small sample of military personnel. Lombroso failed to recognise that correlation does not imply causality. Just because these people all shared similar physical anomalies, does not imply that they were criminals, these physical abnormalities could have been a result of poverty and deprivation of basic needs in life. Lombroso's study was also criticised as the army group he used for his comparison all had violent tendencies anyway and were not a subjected sample of society. In later years, Lombroso's theory has moved from the genetic approach towards the environmental approach.
This does not imply that all that was brought to New Zealand by the Europeans was negative, but the negative impacts strongly outweigh the positive one. Before 1769, the indigenous people of New Zealand are known the Maori and they believed that New Zealand was the only inhabited land on earth, because as far as they knew, there were no other people on earth. They believed this because New Zealand was the last explored land by the Europeans and at this point they had yet to find and explore this foreign land. (Wright p.6) Instead of having written records, the Maroi oral traditions of storytelling have led to a difficult outcome regarding a lack of written literature to factually describe the Maoris background. There have been many different theories when discussing initial settlements in New Zealand.
This means that people did not have any major issues with the regime of the Third Republic and, therefore, had no reason to have uprisings or any disturbances against the Republic, this probably contributed to the long life of the Third Republic. However, the local authorities might have been concerned about the local issues, because there were no national parties until the socialist groups united in 1905 - 1906, even though some national organisations had been created, they were only superficial and did not make a big difference. Therefore, they were unable to participate in
Before the British took India into their own hands, there were many other foreign rulers. The foreign rulers were very different to the British as they slowly integrated and adapted the Indian society such as the language, religion, social habitats and customs, however the British were determine to keep to their traditions and not change; The British wanted to get involved with India because of the goods it had to offer which resulted to the Indians being resented about the fact that the British did not adopt any of their beliefs. The citizens of India never had a say of opinion in any political decisions that were being made, they also experienced racism, and they did not want Christianity to be introduced in India as the majority were part of the Muslim community. India was ruled by Queen Victoria who came to throne in 1877 due to the Prime Minister of Britain, Benjamin Disraeli, proclaiming Queen Victoria as the ‘Empress of India’. The coronation was then followed by a celebration which was held in Delhi which is also known as the Delhi Drubar which was held on 1 January 1877.