There Goes the Neighborhood

            When someone comes in who is new to the neighborhood, there is always mixed feeling. However, when that new person or people come and are different cultures, races, or religion, a lot of times they will be outcast from the rest of the community. Back when the settlers arrived in America, a lot of the time, the Native Americans just ignored then because they didn't speak English. However, some of the Natives looked at the Americans as threats and therefore captured them and tortured them.

            Nowadays the way a person is  treated because of their differences vary. I tend to get excited when I meet people of different cultures and religions than I am. I think it's interesting to learn about the different customs of their religions or cultures because I am so used to my American Catholic way of life that different traditions are very exciting and interests for me! However, although I am very interested in the differences of others, I have heard of others discriminating and treating people poorly because they are different ethnicities, cultures, and religions. Just like there was discrimination of African American's in America, I'm sure there still is. And there's pretty much discrimination of every race in some way or another. 

            Although the Native American's and English settlers didn't always see eye to eye, the Native American's did look up to the settlers at times. They saw these settlers as if they were smarter and more civilized then they were. This is shown by the way that the Natives didn't question the settlers at times and just allowed them to pretty much control them. When trading with the settlers, the Native Americans almost always got cheated. The settlers tended to trade pieces of broken glass for  the native's things that were actually worth something, like gold. This was extremely unfair to the natives, but they had no clue because a lot of times they looked up to these settlers as Gods and didn't question them. And these settlers knew they were being unreasonable, and did it anyways because they didn't look at the Native American's as equals since they were a different culture.