Essay On Non Natives

Natives and non-natives had a lot of cultural differences that hindered their relationship. It is very clear throughout Benjamin Franklin’s short essay entitled “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” that non-natives were not only rude to the natives of America but were rude to their own people as well. In my opinion, the non-native’s rudeness with each other is what lead them to be so rude to the Native Americans through valuing their words above others, not listening to what others say, and not valuing others opinions. Firstly, a speaker who was chosen from the Six Nations to address the government of Virginia brings to light how the non-natives valued their words above others by remarking “How different this from the conduct of …show more content…
John Locke, writer of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, sheds some light on how the lack of taking in ideas can deprive people from obtaining knowledge through his belief that knowledge consists of ideas and perceptions and it requires inquiry rather than the idea that knowledge is the information passed down from one generation to the next. Non-natives completely disregard what the natives try to teach them, which in doing so causes a bigger rift between the non-natives and the natives because the non-natives are not interested in learning about the natives, their only motive is to change them. All things considered, the non-native’s general lack of respect for each other hindered not only themselves but put a great divide between them and the Native Americans. Not only did the non-native’s hold their own words higher than others through interrupting one another and talking over each other, but they also were not listening to what others had to say with their behavior and in turn not valuing other people’s