the movie "tempest" I did not like much because I think it was not a good movie of the incredible shakespire´s work. But the "rabit proof-fence" movie I think it's fantastic. It's a very realistic movie and represents very well what was the colonization in Australia because it is based on a true story so is very moving. It's the best movie that we've seen so far.
Here is my question.
Why always white men feels superior and with more power than other cultures?
It's just a stereotype or is really so?
If you go to an island and you see the people with very basic clothes, tecnology, knowledge, with houses made of bushes or mud, without electricity, cars or paved roads... Did you feel bigger than them?
ReplyDeleteI think that was the way that they felt themselves.
Do you*
Deletei know, but my question was reffering to the reason of wich what "right" or law they feel superior or better than them.
ReplyDeleteYour answer is about that we always know, it is something general and obvious. I want to know more.
Personally I think that its a historycal thing. White people are always at the beggining of times and their entire culture its based on two opposite views: good and bad, white and black, north and south. Ancient world's people had wrong ideas of what the world truly is, and because of that, they felt that they are the first on this world, the first in colonize countries and they really felt powerful for that. In some way, they felt that they have the right to controle all others, its also related to religious things because in the past, the whole Europe was catholic, and in those times, they have the conception that white is pure and black is in some way, represented like a bad thing. SUMARY: They felt superior because of culture and historycal things. They felt with rights, because the catholic church in those times provoke that feeling and wrong conception.
ReplyDeletei agree with you... i think the same...
ReplyDeleteI agree with Gerson. Basically, because I think white people feel superior because they started the travels and colonizations. Maybe, history could be different if other people had traveled and "discovered" the white people world.
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