To What Extent Does Cultural Contact Affect People's Lives

To what extent does cultural contact affect people’s lives?

Cultural contact has been seen around the world. Good things have come of it. But what have we had to sacrifice? who was negatively affected by it? The beothuk people became extinct and the europeans set out to destroy the indigenous cultures to become one culture instead of many. The rwandan genocide, the interruption of a peaceful co-existence of two african groups and made one more important than the other and others made it worse after they both gave up claims,and rwanda was granted independence, conflict arouse and the killings began. Cultural contact has disturbed the way of life of many native groups and disrupted there ways of life. It has left groups without resources,

It can affects them socially economically and politically. The beothuk people are a good example of being negatively affected by cultural contact. when the europeans wanted to harvest the fish the beothuks were forced inland. The beothuk had to change there way of life and then again in the 17th century when the fur trade began. As the europeans began moving inland they had to compete for fur and food. The two cultures reach a point of open conflict and the beothuks population began declining and they became extinct. There lives were up routed and they couldnt do anything to stop it. The aztec are again another example. The spanish came over they battled the aztecs and killed as many as 250,000 aztec people. The spanish then began to convert the aztecs to catholicism. Another people that were affected by cultural contact was the rwandans the germans made one group more important and the belgians made more divisions by having members of the groups carry cards identifying them as hutu or tutsi. Once the rwandans received independence conflict began for who would get power and the once peaceful groups began killing. Cultural contact might have been a good thing for the europeans and the spanish but for the native groups that once lived peacefully there, it was the end of their existence, ways of life, peaceful co-existence and a loss of their

Before the rwandan genocide the hutus and the tutsis co-existed peacefully it wasn't till the germans made the tutsis more important by giving them key positions. The belgiund made them carry cards identifying them as hutu or tutsi which made more divisions between the groups. When rwanda receive independence conflict broke out for who would have political power. And after the hutus won the government began campaign killing against tutsis which lead to a war between groups. This would have never happened if rwanda didn't come in contact with germany which gave them a european view of the world. The oka crisis was a civil strife that started from the contact with the city of oka when they wanted to build a golf course on there land and did not consult them. The cultural contact that happened years ago still has effects today and some eurocentric worldviews still linger today. The 1861 civil war in the united states was caused by human slavery. The americans brought over african slaves and made them do tremendous amounts of work for nothing in return. A civil war broke out after people had enough. If the americans never came in contact with the africans they would have never been enslaved and there would not have been a civil war and many people would not have lost their lives due to slavery and war. Cultural contact has caused many problems and still does today if people did not have a