Racism In The 17th Century

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Have you ever wondered during all the years in different classrooms, schools, and any other learning process we as students have had to go through, what is one key factor that lead us to the understanding of human similarities and actual differences no matter the race, gender, or the simplicity of color? While, there are many people, each with their own views and experiences with all people in their lives and how they act with themselves, friends, loved ones, and newly meet strangers. How is it that mass hysteria based on fears about minority groups, and egocentric individuals’ perceptions of other people's races and ethnicities, spread through the majority of humanity beginning with the 17th Century? This has included all main lands, and some …show more content…

This was a long time ago and it might have been based on our lack of time and things we have today that we take for granted, however; out of necessity we expanded our social experience with others and did not judge and persecute because of color, ethnicity or even education or the lack of common education, instead we concentrated on what could benefit our newly assembled societies and make a program/ process that promoted health and easier living. Also, back in our history we know that we did have our own tribes and communities even after communications started, however; we didn’t immediately prosecute or observed someone as bad, instead we developed different trading routs and concentrated tasks for certain clans, or tribes that would benefit from excelling in one skill instead of trying to cover many. This is how our ancestors and the human race did things before discrimination, politics, and even money because during this time they only traded items for items, not items for money. I brought money into this because money is one soul reason as to why humanity evolved quickly and efficiently. What I mean by this is someone created the concept of money and than that idea spread to all corners of our globe and it became a very simple and efficient thing, giving us more that just simpliar trading, but it also gave humanity the luxury of

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