Although we think that religion is a personal decision, and we can adapt it to how we feel and what we believe, modifying it to our beliefs or ideas can cause serious consequences. As said by Edmund Burke, “Religion is the foundation of civil society.” Traditionalist conservatives believe that societies only develop good social systems from a prolonged process of cumulative growth. In this understanding, Linda Raeder tells us that social systems are developed through a complex process characterized by trial-and-error experimentation. Raeder claims that the advancement of a culture is strongly dependent upon the absorption and transmission of the cultural inheritance over time and when societies fail to transfer their cultural inheritance, the
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Today, social disintegration occurs daily through dehumanization and anti-professionalism. Sabar Rustomjee suggests that individuals feel isolated and insignificant as their previously held value systems fail to contain them. As a result, such individuals see destructiveness as a way of escaping from the unbearable feeling of powerlessness. Thus, social disintegration is the tendency for society to decline over time due to the breakdown of traditional beliefs, social order, and social-support systems that maintain a community’s adaptive, supportive, and developmental capacities (Kaplan). A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster, explores the difficulties people faced to understand each other. The novel is set against the backdrop of the British Empire in India. The story’s main character, Dr. Aziz (a Muslim man), struggles to make friends with the English. Thus, he attempts to bridge this gap by inviting a group of English people out to explore the Marabar Caves. During the trip, Adela, an Englishwoman, …show more content…
In A Passage to India, Forster uses Cyril Fielding (an Englishman) and Dr. Aziz’s friendship as a positive model of humanism. This suggests that the British rule in India could be successful if both Indians and the British treat each other as Aziz and Fielding treat each other with respect, sincerity, and good will. However, Adela’s accusation of Aziz exposes the cruel reality of the British. Even though Adela doesn’t know who attacked her, she assumes that it’s Aziz who did it. This tells us that Adela is clearly engaging in the British’s stereotyping of Indians as dishonorable and sinful. During a conversation, she is told by one of the Englishwomen that the Indians give them “the creeps” and that it is better that they “don’t come near them” (Forster). As Sarah J. Gervais said that “colonial representatives of colonized people, often badly dehumanizing, racist and infantilizing, continue to circulate in subtle, unconscious, or sanitized forms in the contemporary Western world…and they continue to organize our thinking about ethnicity.” It seems that Adela is highly influenced by other Englishwomen’s dehumanization of the Indians since she accuses Aziz as her assaulter even without knowing who attacked her. Thus, she is depriving the Indians of positive human qualities such as loyalty, courage, fairness, individuality, and self-control. Meanwhile, during a conversation, Ronny, a District Magistrate, tells
Today, social disintegration occurs daily through dehumanization and anti-professionalism. Sabar Rustomjee suggests that individuals feel isolated and insignificant as their previously held value systems fail to contain them. As a result, such individuals see destructiveness as a way of escaping from the unbearable feeling of powerlessness. Thus, social disintegration is the tendency for society to decline over time due to the breakdown of traditional beliefs, social order, and social-support systems that maintain a community’s adaptive, supportive, and developmental capacities (Kaplan). A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster, explores the difficulties people faced to understand each other. The novel is set against the backdrop of the British Empire in India. The story’s main character, Dr. Aziz (a Muslim man), struggles to make friends with the English. Thus, he attempts to bridge this gap by inviting a group of English people out to explore the Marabar Caves. During the trip, Adela, an Englishwoman, …show more content…
In A Passage to India, Forster uses Cyril Fielding (an Englishman) and Dr. Aziz’s friendship as a positive model of humanism. This suggests that the British rule in India could be successful if both Indians and the British treat each other as Aziz and Fielding treat each other with respect, sincerity, and good will. However, Adela’s accusation of Aziz exposes the cruel reality of the British. Even though Adela doesn’t know who attacked her, she assumes that it’s Aziz who did it. This tells us that Adela is clearly engaging in the British’s stereotyping of Indians as dishonorable and sinful. During a conversation, she is told by one of the Englishwomen that the Indians give them “the creeps” and that it is better that they “don’t come near them” (Forster). As Sarah J. Gervais said that “colonial representatives of colonized people, often badly dehumanizing, racist and infantilizing, continue to circulate in subtle, unconscious, or sanitized forms in the contemporary Western world…and they continue to organize our thinking about ethnicity.” It seems that Adela is highly influenced by other Englishwomen’s dehumanization of the Indians since she accuses Aziz as her assaulter even without knowing who attacked her. Thus, she is depriving the Indians of positive human qualities such as loyalty, courage, fairness, individuality, and self-control. Meanwhile, during a conversation, Ronny, a District Magistrate, tells