Do you think people come to college with or without racial ideas and stereotypes? Why? Do you think the arguments made by those against ethnic studies are valid? Why or why not? Justify your answer.
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In the terms that this story is presented, the native populations were unaware of people outside their world and were unaware that these people had an attitude that was explorative and exploitative. They were unable to prevent invasion at the level of weaponry, tactics of mass production, oratory/diplomacy to negotiate a mutually acceptable outcome and medicine to fight off infections that the invaders bodies had adapted to but which the locals bodies had not. In effect, they came together at a time where one was advanced in technological and scientific terms and they had an attitude that didn’t respect the equivalent value of human life. It is impossible to know whether the Europeans arrived looking to live in harmony but it seems likely that they came from a time where they expected hostility. The weapons they brought which is referenced in the text was able to penetrate the defences and armour that the local people had developed within their own stage of development. Rather than work in symbiosis and harmony, the invading European forces saw themselves as superior to the indigenous people as their weaponry supported. With an attitude that the local people were a problem inhibiting then from their beliefs that they had a right to take what they needed, it was inevitable that there was going to be conflict. Unfortunately this progressed to a point where the sustainability of the local populations was threatened and in many place the populations were wiped out or left in a pitiful state relative to their former beauty. This, by the way, is a parable for what humanity is doing even to this day to our natural world. And it is going to either kill it, and us with it, or at best damage it a lot more before we realise we must start conserving it right now.