Puritan Influence On American Society

Over the course of human events, it becomes necessary for people to question standards and ideas set by their society, and to assume their right to free thought entitled to them. Common decency requires them to declare the causes which prompt them to separate We hold these truths to be self-evident: that every person is independent from one another; that they each have the rights to free Expression, Thought, and Choice; that to unite these independent peoples, society is formed; that when society becomes destructive of their choices, it is the Right of the people to challenge and alter society, reforming its unwritten rules in a way that will most likely affect their Safety and Happiness. Common sense dictates that society long-established, …show more content…
This has been the patient sufferance of all young adults; and it now compels them to alter their Society to give everyone a voice. The influence of America’s Puritan legacy is one full of black and white dualism that continues to restrict people in the present day. The intolerance and toxicity of Puritan culture has directly established restrictive (double) standards over minority groups. The White Man has a long legacy of controlling women and racial minorities through brute force or other sly means of domination. He has restricted women from living independent from him. He has forbidden them from finding work outside the home. He has restricted them from owning property. He has denied them an education. He has degraded them to a class of sub-human. He has created a standard where the subjugation of women is not only commonplace, but is actively encouraged; where the status of women comes solely from their bodies and …show more content…
He has cultivated a society where women cannot act without the permission of a man. He has wrongfully controlled racial minorities. He has declared that cultures different from his own, are inherently primitive and barbaric, and there for must be destroyed or assimilated. He has stolen people away from their family, friends, and lives. He has glorified colonization as saving and caring for a group of unintelligent slobs, while he actually destroys their way of life to get cheap labor. He has written about equality while he turns a blind eye on ongoing slavery. He has justified the genocide of entire peoples with self-entitled philosophy. He has created a hierarchy that only favors the rich, the White, and the male, while establishing that diverging from the ideal, automatically puts you at a disadvantage; and yet, despite his unfair advantages, he has played the victim of discrimination in situations where people unlike him are given equal opportunities to his own. He has shown uneasiness when he no longer has complete control over an area and the people in it, and when he has to share his privileges. He has