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Post by dianarmartinez on Jul 8, 2024 2:51:36 GMT
If my understanding is correct about the word and purpose of anomie. My first thought was how the government constructed the reservations because native Americans were not wanting to be forced to change. This creates a whole set of problems in itself and because the government gave them a treatment that was much different from white Americans it created endless cycles of Native American trauma that is still being carried today. I can understand the white society was pushing their beliefs and values because they thought it was better. However, them leaving England because they weren’t allowed to practice their religion and then persecuting Native Americans for not adhering to their standards seems conflicting.
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Post by connorswauger on Jul 8, 2024 4:54:40 GMT
I’m glad that you made this post because, you’re right. It really doesn’t add up. It happened with the Natives being forced off their land and into assimilation schools or even with the slave trade. They saw other cultures who didn’t worship the same god, dressed a different way, and interacted in a way that was unfamiliar to the white settlers and they were deemed “savages”. I remember back from the class I took on Afro-Futurism, a whole culture had been lost because of this act of assimilation. All of a sudden there’s a new society in which the victim of assimilation is not represented and that must be excruciatingly lonely.
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Post by gillianlaird on Jul 8, 2024 16:49:13 GMT
Wow, this is such a good point, Diana. I have never looked at things this way. There was so much hypocrisy in the white American community for prosecuting the Natives in the same way that pushed them to run from their own country in the first place. To me, American culture doesn't really exist, it's just an umbrella for the freedom to practice individual cultures. However, I wonder if the Americans of the past felt the need to create a culture in order to ensure a strong country? That doesn't really make sense, even as I type it, but none of what they did makes sense to me.
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