History is dynamic, placing those in the past in certain titles of either being immoral or genuine, is not only false but is also deceitful, Christopher Columbus for instance, a famous explorer during the 14th century was titled various names by some, a vain egotistic man who started the colonization of western civilization and by others the glorious imperialist who “sailed the ocean blue” but, what else is there to know about Christopher Columbus then what we hear about him? To start of with our present day situation, the present schoolbooks, the current elementary grade school syllabus, the standard learning systems, how is Christopher Columbus portrayed? Is he the same immoral man who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of aboriginals
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In this situation it took some time for the rest of us to see the remains of the innocent lives that were lost during this “colonization” process. Which were most of the aboriginals, and in this case the wolves being the “glorious” explorers of the new world. But what made the Christopher Columbus and the rest of the explorers more powerful then the aboriginals? To start of they had a background knowledge of science and nature the aboriginals lacked. The explorers knew what they would eventually have superiority, status and higher hierarchy when standing in the same line of the aboriginals, but some would fight or argue “what would make the explorers more superior than the aboriginals?” “They all have the same arteries that flow blood to the same heart don’t they?” but the answer is they had education. The aboriginals didn’t have written history, all was oral, science and technology was new to them, they were rather educated with culture, mythologies, etc. they lived in simplicity versus the explorers broad understanding of power, colonization, capitalism and what would …show more content…
He with power will always win. The reason the aboriginal standpoint wasn’t portrayed was to what reason? The fact they had no power in comparison to Columbus. Which relates to a saying my mother used to tell me “‘it’s a harsh world out there and you either get eaten by the wolves and it’ll take time for everyone else to see the remains they left of your bodies.” And in this context it took time for the majority of present day people to acknowledge the genocide of the aboriginals, because those in power were the powerful explorers in this context the “wolves.” The present is key, what happens in the present will be told in past tense in the future, its what happens now which determines what happened and what will happen then, in Howard Zinn’s point of view, Columbus used his control of the present disregarding the rights of the aboriginals, but that doesn’t change the fact the had control and still flows with George Orwell’s famous and standard quote “he who controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future.”
In this situation it took some time for the rest of us to see the remains of the innocent lives that were lost during this “colonization” process. Which were most of the aboriginals, and in this case the wolves being the “glorious” explorers of the new world. But what made the Christopher Columbus and the rest of the explorers more powerful then the aboriginals? To start of they had a background knowledge of science and nature the aboriginals lacked. The explorers knew what they would eventually have superiority, status and higher hierarchy when standing in the same line of the aboriginals, but some would fight or argue “what would make the explorers more superior than the aboriginals?” “They all have the same arteries that flow blood to the same heart don’t they?” but the answer is they had education. The aboriginals didn’t have written history, all was oral, science and technology was new to them, they were rather educated with culture, mythologies, etc. they lived in simplicity versus the explorers broad understanding of power, colonization, capitalism and what would …show more content…
He with power will always win. The reason the aboriginal standpoint wasn’t portrayed was to what reason? The fact they had no power in comparison to Columbus. Which relates to a saying my mother used to tell me “‘it’s a harsh world out there and you either get eaten by the wolves and it’ll take time for everyone else to see the remains they left of your bodies.” And in this context it took time for the majority of present day people to acknowledge the genocide of the aboriginals, because those in power were the powerful explorers in this context the “wolves.” The present is key, what happens in the present will be told in past tense in the future, its what happens now which determines what happened and what will happen then, in Howard Zinn’s point of view, Columbus used his control of the present disregarding the rights of the aboriginals, but that doesn’t change the fact the had control and still flows with George Orwell’s famous and standard quote “he who controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future.”