In “The Journal of the First Voyage”, Christopher Columbus have a condecending tone towards the natives. Columbus viewed the natives as “poor in everything” based on how they looked and their reaction when Columbus showed them the non-valuable beads from Europe. Which conveys a western perspective that Columbus had on rich and poor, and “everything” that the natives showed Columbus appears to be worthless. Columbus is being condescending towards the natives by comparing the ‘goods’ that he brought from Europe and “everything” he saw from the Natives. Created a supieror status for the Europeans through the cognition of value. Later on in his journal, Columbus described the native’s ignorance through their reaction when they saw the weapons that
