the Spanish saw the natives abundance of gold and that they were not Christian, and they felt justified in mistreating them because they thought they were helping them religiously
In this week’s reading, “Spanish Conquest” by Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer discuss the subjugation, ethnocide, and struggle the indigenous population of Mexico endured during the Spanish conquest. The Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortez, enslave and forced the Aztecs to believe that Christianity was the one true religion. Therefore, the indigenous people were forced to convert their faith through the Spanish missionaries to lose their indigenous roots. Later, the authors explain the many difficulties and conflicts Spanish priest underwent to teach the Christian faith to the Aztecs. The Spanish friar first taught the indigenous people Christianity in Nahuatl.
Throughout his piece, Sanders uses the words, “we” and “our.” The author’s use of first-person pronouns already brings him together with his audience and shows that his response does not only concern him, but everybody else. The passage ends with Sanders stating, “When we cease to be migrants and become inhabitants, we might begin to pay enough heed and respect to where we are. By settling in, we have a chance of making a durable home for ourselves, our fellow creatures, and our descendant,” which appeals to pathos. Again, the author includes the audience and even speaks about the future generation.
The Spanish explorer Coronado, set on a mission to find gold. Their search was, in fact, in vain when they discovered that the mythical cities of gold were just pueblo homes. Coronado, completely disrespected the inhabitants of this city by over running their towns, controlling their food, and demanded they convert to Christianity. He did not spread the idea of Christianity, but rather make the people hate and resent it, for it represented turmoil and destruction to them. I fully believe that Coronado’s tyrant sparked the resentment of newcomers and made the possibility of coexisting peacefully a little more
The video “Latino Americans: Foreigners in their Native Land” it shows the different experiences from these different cultures, races and government system. I can see how Mexican people and Native Americans both had different issues and main conflicts, which it leads to the dominion of the Anglo or European settlements in the United States. Leading to the facts that they brought a religious and government system that dominate these cultures by making them work for them. These mission settlements had the idea to bring peace and opportunities to everyone but they only create a system that controls these people lives in one way or the other. For example, we can see in the video that Native, where punish by the mission colonial system if they don’t
That the Anglo-Saxons were superior to the Mexicans and that God had saved America for people of Saxon blood. Like previous chapter this chapter also delved into the mentality that other races were oppressed because of their own faults rather than the oppression of white people. White American could sleep better at night if the suffering of others was blamed on racial weaknesses rather than on the fact that whites were exploiting these people. In taking Mexican land the whites used the same excuse that they did when taking the land from Indians. The Mexicans had lost because of racial weaknesses and like the Native Americans they couldn’t take care of the land, and that the world would be a better place when a superior race spread further into the southwest.
He provides a historical allusion to the Dust Bowl in which he says it “was caused not by drought but by the transfer onto the Great Plains of farming methods that were suitable to wetter regions” (Sanders 56-59). This demonstrates the negative results that come from migration because the farmers had originally lived in a climate that could tolerate the excessive farming, but when they moved, they did not account for the climate change, so they ended up hurting both themselves and their environment. Through the expression of the negative results of the mass migration in history, Sanders impacts his audience by invoking a sense of fear within them, so the audience is more likely to support Sanders position. The audience does not want to harm any aspect of their life, so a greater motivation to remain in the place where they have established their roots is create. The impact on the environment and one’s way of life causes Sanders to appreciate “People who root themselves in places” (Sanders 73) and believe that “By settling in, we have a chance of making a durable home for ourselves, our fellow creatures, and our descendants” (Sanders 78-80).
In a response to an essay by Salman Rushdie about the advantages of moving, Scott Russell Sanders debunks the idea of movement to be beneficial by using different types of allusions as a the persuasion skill. Sanders applies a persuasive, strong voice throughout his argument, but he remains to be respectful towards Rushdie. Scott Russell Sanders develops stance of staying put - instead of moving place to place - by directly referencing Salman Rushdie, and he utilizes a respectful tone in order to convince people to stay with the surroundings they are in; he employs allusions to prove to the audience that staying put should be more preferable than moving. The allusion of the Bible, biblical allusion, in the beginning of essay sets the mood of the rest of the essay to be
In The Requerimiento by Juan López de Palacios Rubios, natives in the new world were told, “We ask that … you acknowledge the Christian church as the ruler and superior of the whole world, and as superiors that you agree to let the Christian priests preach to you … (The Priests) shall not compel you to become Christians unless you yourself wish to be converted. But if you do not do this … we shall forcefully enter into your country and make war against you.” The Spanish conquistadors allowed natives to choose whether or not they wanted to convert to Christianity, However if they did not, then the Spanish turned them into slaves. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo openly stated that a reason for Spanish exploration was, “To serve God and his majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness.” The Spanish viewed non-Christians as unintelligent people because they believed in a different God.
He argues this case through many sources, one of which described that Mexicans are not capable of straying away from their own culture and even included U.S. born Mexicans Americans, thus making them more prone to creating a new nation within the U.S. southwest (35-36). Chavez explains that the scholar does not
On the contrary, his religion is not directly used as a way to overpower a group of people, but instead to heal them. His healing does give him power over the Indians but it is not used in the manipulative way that Columbus and Cortes use it to exploit the naiveness of the people to get more resources to take over. Once he has the Indians fully believing that they have special powers, he cites his powers as miracles from God saying that “if they believed in God our Lord and become Christian like us, they would not be afraid of him nor would he dare to come and do those things to them”. Although, the Indian people did not understand this idea and knew them as “children of the sun” who knew how to manipulate supernatural powers. Though this miscommunication of ideas did not end up hurting either party involved.
`Do you know about Cleopatra and her life? Well, Cleopatra was born a princess but turned queen around 17/18 years old. She was best known for being the last pharaoh of Egypt. She made a big impact on egypt. Cleopatra was very educated when she was younger.
This quote shows the social injustice experienced by immigrants who are often discriminated against this affects Anh by him not having a sense of belonging anywhere he goes in Australia he is classed as Vietnamese in Vietnam he is classed as Australian. Anh Do uses contrast. “The media portrayed us as criminals and terrorists, despite the fact that we were just ordinary people looking for a safe place to call home. It was unfair, and it made me feel like I didn't belong in this country”. This quote highlights the social injustice experienced by refugees who are often criticized and victimized by governments and the media.
In a series of rhetorical questions, he asks if an immigrant can call a country that met him with nothing but “the frowns of the rich [and] the severity of the laws” (11) his homeland. The way these questions were included vividly illustrate his point that there is reason for an immigrant continuing to
At the heart of a person‘s life lies the struggle to define his self, to make sense of who he is? Diaspora represents the settling as well as unsettling process. While redesigning the geopolitical boundaries, cultural patterns, it has also reshaped the identities of the immigrants with new challenges confronting the immigrant in negotiating his identity. Diaspora becomes a site where past is given a new meaning and is preserved out of intense nostalgia and longing. The novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid is significant in its treatment of the issues faced by immigrants in the diaspora.
