Just because one group of people believes another will not survive does not give them the control to breed them out. White people have never been able to leave Aborigines alone, the children particularly have suffered. Missionaries, teachers, government officials have believed that the best way to make black people behave like white people was to get hold of the children who had not yet learned Aboriginal ways of life. They thought that children’s minds were like a kind of blackboard on which the European secrets could be written. Aboriginal children were taken away from their parents that were either living on government reserves and stations by government
However, many European countries viewed these lesser colonies as “primitive and backward.” Why can’t people feed themselves? As Lappé and Collins both note, people can’t feed themselves because Colonial Powers kicked the natives off their land, forced them into cash cropping, taxed the natives in the respective European currency, and finally, forbade the natives to grown their own food on their own land. The first step by the Europeans was to force the native peoples off their land so that the land itself may be used for cash crop production. John Stuart Mill suggested that colonies shouldn’t be thought of as civilizations or countries at all, but rather “agriculture establishments.” In most instances, these colonial powers
“Race Cleansing in America” Peter Quinn Article Review 2.1 In Peter Quinn’s article, “Race cleansing in America”, he states that it was against the law for the mentally retarded, or the “feeble-minded” (Quinn, 82) to produce offspring. These people were looked down upon as criminals to society who should not bring into being a second generation of themselves. Quinn’s theory: the feeble-minded were weak and the rich, as well as society, stepped all over them. Sterilization was the method that was introduced to end “imbeciles” (Quinn, 82), which would lead to a greater America. “It is better for all the world,” Justice Holmes asserted in Buck v. Bell, “if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.
The English believed that the Native Americans were not making the land yield enough fruit and this perceived shortcoming caused the natives to forfeit their right to the land. From this mindset the English decided that they would not make slaves of the Indians but give the Native Americans an “opportunity to work, to pay taxes to the commonweal, to become Christian, and to learn how to make the land more productive-so that they would ultimately be better off than they were before (p. 36).” Despite the “Christian- sentiments” of the colonists, cruelty in colonial America raged. After failing to cultivate the land properly, the English colonists were desperate for food. Although they could have traded with the natives for food, “President” John Smith decided that the colonists would go into the native villages and take the
Despite the documentary many Europeans were killed during these massacres as well as Indians. The director not showing the Europeans being killed is a form of selection of detail. This takes away our traditional views of Indians from the old Cowboy and Indian movies where Indians kidnapped women and children and the white people were there savior. When the Europeans settled in America they tried to recreate Britain in this land but the climate, plants and animals were totally different so they were upsetting the natural ecosystem of the land. Whereas this is what the Indians had successfully not done by harvesting only what they need.
White people believed they were superior to the blacks and barely viewed them as human beings. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee writes accurate descriptions of how racism was ingrained in the daily lives of Americans such as Aunt Alexandra whose response to Scout as to why she cannot play with a black boy is "Because- he – is – trash, that’s why you can’t play with him". Alexandra is not giving Scout a real reason why because she has no reason other than she grew up with society telling her black and white children could not play together and was brainwashed into believing it. Another situation that shows the shocking segregation is when Cecil Jacobs asked a question about why the Jewish were persecuted in class "But that ain’t no cause to persecute ‘em. They’re white aren’t they?"
As I said this is how they gained respect and by doing this they could also gain a wife. Indians didn’t belief in dying in warfare because they thought dying in a battle was stupid as a dead brave couldn’t feed his family. However for the Americans stealing was a crime, and murders were killed or imprisoned. They thought that to be killed in a battle was an honour but to run away was cowardly. In conclusion you can see why white Americans society thought differently from the Indians society.
November 24, 2013 Do you agree with the view presented in Source 9 that critics of the Second Boer War ‘ were wrong to say that the concentration camps were part of the deliberate use of the “methods of barbarism” I partially agree with the view stated in Source 9 because I feel that the scorched earth policy of destroying family farms and homesteads was barbaric. Nevertheless, the concentration camps, even though they were poorly managed and inadequate, were not intended to be death camps or extermination camps to eliminate the Boer families but were built to be a refuge for the homeless and unprotected Boer civilians. The opinion put forward in source 9 would be more accurate if the scorched earth policy was total warfare and the Boer civilians were killed at their homes rather than being taken to concentration camps. Since the civilians were not killed but resettled into a camp, it shows that the British attempted to reduce the barbaric actions of destroying homes, by caring for the displaced civilians. Unfortunately, the intention was not fully supported materially, the camps were poorly supplied and managed, and many thousands of civilians died as a result.
People thought that the colored was only good for cleaning and taking care of the white’s children. “Racial prejudice, or any invidiousness that ritualizes exclusion, marks a victim category, singles out a type by sex or color, language, class, or educational attainment (as in the Cambodia of the killing fields or the China of Mao’s Cultural Revolution) is wrong, unfair, before a drop of blood is shed for the shining ideal to be polished in its name.” (L. Goodman 2010)” People think that mass murder is different from any criminal slaying of a targeted victim. The first area is genocide, politically induced famine, and germ warfare. According to Goodman
The white people decided that they wanted to take the land away from the Indians and formed a government against the Indians. The children were taken to these reservations for education but they were not allowed to know about their heritage, they had to learn the American way. This was hard for the elders to understand, they wanted their