Summary Of How Isis Temple Demolition Impacts The World

The idea that gratuitous changes will ultimately lead to cultural destruction is greatly expressed in both Cry, the Beloved Country and the CNN article titled “How ISIS’ Temple Demolition Impacts the World.” In the classic novel, this theme is made most apparent when James Jarvis, a white farmer, (who was introduced as ignorant to the social injustices around him) is reading his late son Arthur’s manuscript. The document tells that “the old tribal system was, for all its violence and savagery, for all its superstition and witchcraft, a moral system. Our natives today produce criminals and prostitutes and drunkards, not because it is in their nature to do so, but because their simple system of order and tradition and convention has been destroyed.

The choices made forced blacks to accept lower standards of living and pursue lives of rebellion, struggling to support their families and stay alive day by day. Today, our world is all too familiar with the militant group ISIS. While wreaking havoc internationally and the dramatically rising death tolls in Syria may make the destruction of the Temple of Bel appear virtually irrelevant, the history and culture that fell with the 2,000-year-old building exemplify how dire this cultural emergency truly is. Much like the whites in Alan Paton’s story, ISIS is dispassionate about preserving the civilization of Syria and Iraq, in fact, it is actually their goal to remove the history of those countries from the world. Eric Thompson from the CNN article explains that “[the group] seeks to destroy diversity and enforce narrow uniformity. Evidence of a tolerant, diverse past is anathema.” ISIS bombed the ancient temple to remove a piece history, but the people currently living around it are affected now, as it was a major tourist attraction that brought money to the neighboring