Friday, September 23, 2011

There Goes the Neighborhood


     When the Europeans first came to America they were intruding on land that belonged to the Native Americans. They took what wasn't theirs and called it their own. The Europeans were happy that they could do whatever they pleased especially when they were taking advantage of the Native Americans with unfair trades, such as learning how to find food in the forests the Europeans gave the Indians beads. Without this skill the Europeans would have never survived and all the Native Americans got were lousy beads, which the Europeans tricked them to thinking they were priceless. This happens today, people take advantage of the naive and unaware, they sold them fake merchendise, or they raised the prices on their merchendise to make even more money and they make it sound like they're getting a deal. When I was walking down the street last year I heard a man say, "I'll sell it to you for $20." He was selling a lady a bottle of water near the White Sox game. She bought it and I felt so bad because she had no idea that you can buy 20 bottles of water for that much. This is just like what the Europeans did to the Native Americans they took advantage of their lack of knowledge and exploited it for their own good.

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