There Goes the Neighborhood

In the excerpt from the Christopher Columbus journal, we were able to see how Christopher Columbus invaded the Native Americans territory. The Native Americans welcomed Christopher Columbus and his people with open arms and only the best intentions. But, Christopher Columbus manipulated the Natives and majorly discarded the trust the Natives had for them. Looking back in history, we can see that Christopher Columbus was in the wrong for trying and converting the Natives religion, along with taking them as slaves, but I would have to bring up the point of the Natives being to accepting. Yes, trust may be something valuable in Native American culture, but letting these settlers who you have no information on or what their intentions are, wasn’t very smart. Although, they might’ve not been able to control their destiny, they could’ve been more protective and guarded with the land and civilization that they spent their whole lives establishing. I can relate the Native Americans and settlers clashing with modern day racial clashing. A lot of the time when theirs a neighborhood with a certain race majority (white, black, Hispanic, etc.) and another race moves into the neighborhood, theirs usually some type of verbal conflict between the neighborhood citizens. For example, if a white family moves into an all-black neighborhood, there is most likely going to be some kind of internal or external conflict in the neighborhood. This could be for multiple reasons, one being the diversity, and another being that the community is afraid they’re going to be ran out by the new race that’s moved into their neighborhood. The black people, in this example, had a different mindset then the Natives did. The Natives didn’t know what was to come, and we can’t blame them for what happened to them, but they could’ve put up a bit of a guard when it came to the settlers taking over their civilization.