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Monday, September 21, 2009
"White Man's Image" - Period 5
Today you watched the film, In the White Man's Image. Post your thoughts about the film and make sure to comment on at least one other student's post.
24 comments:
Alison DeFiore
said...
It's almost a little difficult to watch "In the White Man's Image" because it's just so wrong. I agree with Alicia when she talked about the Native Americans being forced to learn English. They definitely didn't want to. I feel so bad about what was done to them. I think it's wrong to just consider a group of humans, in this case Native Americans, as test subjects for something new that is as life-changing as the ordeal Pratt put them through. It is wrong to force them to change their entire lives and not even give them a say in their own destiny.
I agree with Alison when she said it was hard to watch Native American's forced by the english men to speak and learn english. No matter what race no one should be forced to change who they are. Like Alecia said, I think that they should not of been forced from their homes. I think that it was wrong for the americans to only accept the Native American's if they spoke english and dressed the same way as them. The Native American's should be accepted no matter what they speak or how they act. I would never want to be forced off my land and then molded into something that I'm not, just like the Native American's. I also thought it was wrong that the Native American's were called savages just because their lifestyle was different from the American's way of living.
The film "White Man's Image" shows how selfish and inconsiderate the white people were to the Native Americans. They wanted their land and they wanted the Native Americans to disappear because they were getting in the way of their new developing world. But since the whites couldn't just make the Native Americans disappear without some kind of consequences they forced them to conform to white culture, which later resulted in the disappearance of Native American culture. It's wrong and unfair, especially given the fact that Native Americans seem to live by such peaceful and simple rules which the white people could surely learn very much from. -Jena Ward
I agree with the second anonymous post when they say that the white man just wanted the Natives to dissapear and take their land. The white man was the one who created the declaration of independence and the constitution, so shouldn't these natives be treated like human beings? Sometimes I don't know if the white man viewed natives as human beings or wild animals. It is hard to have no sympathy toward a group of innocent prisoners that have been stripped of their homeland and their families, as the white men had little.
I also agree with Alecia and Alison. This movie shows how one group can try to change another just because they don't understand it. People seem to have a fear of what they don't understand. The natural response it to try and change it, so that it is "normal" or acceptable". This is a big mastake. On top of inflicting pain on these Native Americans, the "white man" whipped out the majority of an entire culture and a way of life. Trying to conform others is never a good thing.
When I watched the film "White Man's Image" it me think of an important life lesson: never judge people and try to force them into anouther culture. The Native Americans had their way of life and the white people came in and in a way took it away from them when they tried to Americanize them.
Native Americans have been treated more unfairly than any other race in the past 300 years exept for the blacks during the slave era. Not only were they stripped of their food, families, land, and religion, they were stripped of their identites. The White Mans image showed us how Pratt Americanized these Native Americans quickly killing their culture. The Native Americans were intelligent, interesting people and I wish they lived in abundance present day. Selfish Americans ruining the party once again.
In the film The White Mans Image, i felt there were many lesson that can be learned. The greatest being you can not force culture to anyone. I agree with Garrett when he said "you should not force a group of people into something that they are not". Native Americand were here first and didnt deserve to be stripped of their land and culture. The stories of the Native Americans seem to be another skeleton in the closet of Americas past.
In the film i think that it showed how the a group of whites forcefully changed the native americans out of their culture. i think that the white men were being hypocritical because isnt freedom what they fought for in the revolutionary war? i agree also with alecia when she said that the natives shouldnt be forced from their homes and have the white man's culture forced upon them
I agree with Melissa when she said the film shows how Americans were heartless to completely strip the Native Americans from their true identity.It's kind of sickening to watch the film and see how the white settlers did this.I don't think anyone has the right to force a group of people to conform to another group's ways and culture. For the white's to think that the land belongs to them is absolutely ridiculous, especially considering the Native Americans were there first. Atleast the Native Americans are mature and respectful saying that they thought the land belongs to no one, because man belongs to the land.
I agree with Garrett when he says, "you should not force a group of people into something that they are not." Native Americans were treated very badly and forced to be something they are not. This is extremely unfair towards innocent human being. The white peoples racism is extremely unfair and I feel bad for the way the Native Americans were treated.
I agree with Garrett when he says that the point of the film was not forcing people to be something they are not. I never knew that Americans forced the Native Americans into institutions for learning. I was disgusted to see the methods that were used to trick the Native Americans into going to these schools.
It was hard to watch the film The White Mans image. The Native Americans were put through a rough ride. They got no respect and they were shistered. I agree with Garret when he said "you should not force a group of people into something that they are not." It must of been hard for them to make the big adjustment. This really was awful what the white man did to these Native Americans
The film, "The White Man's Image" is a very bias opinion and almost disturbing to se how white folk treated native americans. It shows the extent of how we removed them from their land, stripped their culture, and forced them to be "White" men. but what makes that right, who said they weren't right in the first place, however we felt as though we had supremacy and felt like we dominated and did as we wanted.
I agree with Garrett when he said "you should not force a group of people into something that they are not." I agree with this because it isn't fair to force different ethnic groups to be something there not because that is just not right. The white people saw the Native Americans as people they weren't. They never even gave them a chance to prove themselves that they are just as equal as the Americans and that is wrong.
In the film The White Man's image it shows how Native Americans were forced to learn English and become americanized. Also, I find that it wasn't fair that they had to leave their territory especially that the Native Americans were there first. I believe that the white men had no right to change who the Native Americans were.
I missed the film "In The White Man's Image" but judging by my understanding of it the "white men" tried to assimilate all native americans into their own culture, basically stripping the native americans of their heritage. Cleary its wrong, the white men focused purely on the children therefore by targeting the native american children the new generation would bke brought up as "white men."
i also agrre with Eric Robidoux the indians were being kicked out of there own territory and forced into the whitemans culture i think it was wrong. We took families and tradtition from innocent indians and turned them into the white mans image
what i found so interesting was the irony of the fact that the white american went to such great length to "Americanize" the native american but after the whole process was done they still treated them as second class citizens due to the fact that they were native americans. Its strangebecause it means that the entire process has no point.
I thought that this film was an incredibaly informative film. I never knew that the "white man" took the native american's and through them into a school to try and convert them to the white culture. I thought that they were just kicked out of their homes if they didn't reply with the white man's orders. I agree with Sam in the fact that the americans were just being hypocritical. By them trying to make indians into americans they treated them like indians or a lower class of human.
This film really sends a clear message. That message is that many races have suffered and the Native Americans were one of the many. Each race suffered in their own way. The Indians were forced to live the ways of the white man, forced against their own will. The white man's image was to eliminate the Indian and create a new white man.
Im starting to see a trend in the way white people treat other groups of people. Through-out the history of our country white people have been the oppresors. In the "White Mans Image" the white people trick and decieve the Natives.
This tells people a lot about our people in comparison to others. Why would we try and assimilate someone into our culture if they didn't want it? To trick them and say it was for the better when it was really for our own benefit.
24 comments:
It's almost a little difficult to watch "In the White Man's Image" because it's just so wrong. I agree with Alicia when she talked about the Native Americans being forced to learn English. They definitely didn't want to. I feel so bad about what was done to them. I think it's wrong to just consider a group of humans, in this case Native Americans, as test subjects for something new that is as life-changing as the ordeal Pratt put them through. It is wrong to force them to change their entire lives and not even give them a say in their own destiny.
I agree with Alison when she said it was hard to watch Native American's forced by the english men to speak and learn english. No matter what race no one should be forced to change who they are. Like Alecia said, I think that they should not of been forced from their homes. I think that it was wrong for the americans to only accept the Native American's if they spoke english and dressed the same way as them. The Native American's should be accepted no matter what they speak or how they act. I would never want to be forced off my land and then molded into something that I'm not, just like the Native American's. I also thought it was wrong that the Native American's were called savages just because their lifestyle was different from the American's way of living.
The film "White Man's Image" shows how selfish and inconsiderate the white people were to the Native Americans. They wanted their land and they wanted the Native Americans to disappear because they were getting in the way of their new developing world. But since the whites couldn't just make the Native Americans disappear without some kind of consequences they forced them to conform to white culture, which later resulted in the disappearance of Native American culture. It's wrong and unfair, especially given the fact that Native Americans seem to live by such peaceful and simple rules which the white people could surely learn very much from.
-Jena Ward
I agree with the second anonymous post when they say that the white man just wanted the Natives to dissapear and take their land. The white man was the one who created the declaration of independence and the constitution, so shouldn't these natives be treated like human beings? Sometimes I don't know if the white man viewed natives as human beings or wild animals. It is hard to have no sympathy toward a group of innocent prisoners that have been stripped of their homeland and their families, as the white men had little.
I also agree with Alecia and Alison. This movie shows how one group can try to change another just because they don't understand it. People seem to have a fear of what they don't understand. The natural response it to try and change it, so that it is "normal" or acceptable". This is a big mastake. On top of inflicting pain on these Native Americans, the "white man" whipped out the majority of an entire culture and a way of life. Trying to conform others is never a good thing.
When I watched the film "White Man's Image" it me think of an important life lesson: never judge people and try to force them into anouther culture. The Native Americans had their way of life and the white people came in and in a way took it away from them when they tried to Americanize them.
Native Americans have been treated more unfairly than any other race in the past 300 years exept for the blacks during the slave era. Not only were they stripped of their food, families, land, and religion, they were stripped of their identites. The White Mans image showed us how Pratt Americanized these Native Americans quickly killing their culture. The Native Americans were intelligent, interesting people and I wish they lived in abundance present day. Selfish Americans ruining the party once again.
the entry above this is mine.
(ERIC THOMAS)
In the film The White Mans Image, i felt there were many lesson that can be learned. The greatest being you can not force culture to anyone. I agree with Garrett when he said "you should not force a group of people into something that they are not". Native Americand were here first and didnt deserve to be stripped of their land and culture. The stories of the Native Americans seem to be another skeleton in the closet of Americas past.
In the film i think that it showed how the a group of whites forcefully changed the native americans out of their culture. i think that the white men were being hypocritical because isnt freedom what they fought for in the revolutionary war? i agree also with alecia when she said that the natives shouldnt be forced from their homes and have the white man's culture forced upon them
I agree with Melissa when she said the film shows how Americans were heartless to completely strip the Native Americans from their true identity.It's kind of sickening to watch the film and see how the white settlers did this.I don't think anyone has the right to force a group of people to conform to another group's ways and culture. For the white's to think that the land belongs to them is absolutely ridiculous, especially considering the Native Americans were there first. Atleast the Native Americans are mature and respectful saying that they thought the land belongs to no one, because man belongs to the land.
I agree with Garrett when he says, "you should not force a group of people into something that they are not." Native Americans were treated very badly and forced to be something they are not. This is extremely unfair towards innocent human being. The white peoples racism is extremely unfair and I feel bad for the way the Native Americans were treated.
I agree with Garrett when he says that the point of the film was not forcing people to be something they are not. I never knew that Americans forced the Native Americans into institutions for learning. I was disgusted to see the methods that were used to trick the Native Americans into going to these schools.
It was hard to watch the film The White Mans image. The Native Americans were put through a rough ride. They got no respect and they were shistered. I agree with Garret when he said "you should not force a group of people into something that they are not." It must of been hard for them to make the big adjustment. This really was awful what the white man did to these Native Americans
The film, "The White Man's Image" is a very bias opinion and almost disturbing to se how white folk treated native americans. It shows the extent of how we removed them from their land, stripped their culture, and forced them to be "White" men. but what makes that right, who said they weren't right in the first place, however we felt as though we had supremacy and felt like we dominated and did as we wanted.
I agree with Garrett when he said "you should not force a group of people into something that they are not." I agree with this because it isn't fair to force different ethnic groups to be something there not because that is just not right. The white people saw the Native Americans as people they weren't. They never even gave them a chance to prove themselves that they are just as equal as the Americans and that is wrong.
-Danielle Allen.
In the film The White Man's image it shows how Native Americans were forced to learn English and become americanized. Also, I find that it wasn't fair that they had to leave their territory especially that the Native Americans were there first. I believe that the white men had no right to change who the Native Americans were.
I missed the film "In The White Man's Image" but judging by my understanding of it the "white men" tried to assimilate all native americans into their own culture, basically stripping the native americans of their heritage. Cleary its wrong, the white men focused purely on the children therefore by targeting the native american children the new generation would bke brought up as "white men."
i also agrre with Eric Robidoux the indians were being kicked out of there own territory and forced into the whitemans culture i think it was wrong. We took families and tradtition from innocent indians and turned them into the white mans image
what i found so interesting was the irony of the fact that the white american went to such great length to "Americanize" the native american but after the whole process was done they still treated them as second class citizens due to the fact that they were native americans. Its strangebecause it means that the entire process has no point.
I thought that this film was an incredibaly informative film. I never knew that the "white man" took the native american's and through them into a school to try and convert them to the white culture. I thought that they were just kicked out of their homes if they didn't reply with the white man's orders. I agree with Sam in the fact that the americans were just being hypocritical. By them trying to make indians into americans they treated them like indians or a lower class of human.
This film really sends a clear message. That message is that many races have suffered and the Native Americans were one of the many. Each race suffered in their own way. The Indians were forced to live the ways of the white man, forced against their own will. The white man's image was to eliminate the Indian and create a new white man.
Im starting to see a trend in the way white people treat other groups of people. Through-out the history of our country white people have been the oppresors. In the "White Mans Image" the white people trick and decieve the Natives.
This tells people a lot about our people in comparison to others. Why would we try and assimilate someone into our culture if they didn't want it? To trick them and say it was for the better when it was really for our own benefit.
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