Hispaniola And Hitler Comparison
Fundamentalism can be defined as a revival movement which can be religious or secular depending on the beliefs. It contains unwavering attachment to a set of indestructible beliefs. It is applied to specific ideologies, and has a strong sense of the importance of maintaining intra-group relationships and others distinctions. This essay will contain materials on fundamentalism,racism to others and comparing it to Hispaniola and Hitler’s original racism remarks.
To begin with “the other”; one must understand what is meant by the “other”. “Other” can be defined as a “cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person; their acknowledgement of being alive”(“The Other” 1999). Fundamentalism is common among certain groups, mainly, though …show more content…
So to interact with the Indians, he had to connect with Japan, European and natives both knew. For example, when Christopher Columbus decide to set sail to Haiti, he was not expecting it to be inhabited by natives. The Spaniards had gone to Hispaniola to expand their empire. When he told the Spaniards about Hispaniola; he experienced a different culture which was different from his beliefs. The Spaniards just wanted to expand their empire peacefully. Spain’s soldiers managed to override Hispaniola, and convince them of two choices: convert and be enslaved or perish. Sepulveda’s belief of “we are all brothers and if some of us lost faith it is because of the original sin” is based off of the Spaniard’s invasion of the new world. The Spaniard spoke of the original sin of the indians, not that there were non-christian which would prevent Jesus from coming and bless the land making it fruitful; his belief were solely based off proselytize. Sepulveda was surprised to see the Indians practicing a different set of beliefs on faith. He managed to convince himself that ridiculing the Indians’s faith and having them to covert into Christianity was a profound decision on his end. Most Indians decided to convert to
To begin with “the other”; one must understand what is meant by the “other”. “Other” can be defined as a “cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person; their acknowledgement of being alive”(“The Other” 1999). Fundamentalism is common among certain groups, mainly, though …show more content…
So to interact with the Indians, he had to connect with Japan, European and natives both knew. For example, when Christopher Columbus decide to set sail to Haiti, he was not expecting it to be inhabited by natives. The Spaniards had gone to Hispaniola to expand their empire. When he told the Spaniards about Hispaniola; he experienced a different culture which was different from his beliefs. The Spaniards just wanted to expand their empire peacefully. Spain’s soldiers managed to override Hispaniola, and convince them of two choices: convert and be enslaved or perish. Sepulveda’s belief of “we are all brothers and if some of us lost faith it is because of the original sin” is based off of the Spaniard’s invasion of the new world. The Spaniard spoke of the original sin of the indians, not that there were non-christian which would prevent Jesus from coming and bless the land making it fruitful; his belief were solely based off proselytize. Sepulveda was surprised to see the Indians practicing a different set of beliefs on faith. He managed to convince himself that ridiculing the Indians’s faith and having them to covert into Christianity was a profound decision on his end. Most Indians decided to convert to