Analysis: Was This Country Ever A Utopia

Neil KC

9/12/15

English 106

Adrianna Radosti Was This Country Ever a Utopia?

As an American I think that it is very hard to think of what a dystopian society would be like. It seems so foreign to the mentality that we the American people have established for ourselves. We have always valued the ideas of liberty, freedom, and justice that our Founding Fathers established for us. But if you look through our history as a nation, I personally disagree to the idea that we followed these “so-called” steps at all. As a nation I think America’s past represents the closest thing that we may see to what a dystopia may have looked like. It seems drastic to jump to such a conclusion, but significant

This has often lead to conflicts which usually followed by either a certain race of people either being wiped or subjected. If you look back in about 150 years you might notice that you are viewing an entirely different country. Before the-the 21st century, America had a reputation as a place that was unkind to anyone if you were not Anglo-Saxon. For the white majority, America allowed them to have an unlimited amount of freedom. But on the other had for different minority groups living in America was living hell each group had to face struggles that undermined their basic rights to liberty, freedom, and

For the original people of this land, the Native Americans began to soon live in a dystopia. Their culture, their pride as a people was washed away because of the progression of the American culture. Throughout America, racial stereotypes were thrown towards the native Americans like redskins or that they would scalp peoples heads off. This caused the rise in killing and destroying of Native American culture and people. For the white colonist killing of Native of Americans was encouraged, each killing allowed the white colonist to get paid per kill. Which is ironic in a sense because for their freedom and benefits whites had to crush the freedom of the Native Americans. Just the concept of destroying or inhibiting someone else’s freedom sounds dystopia-esque, it sounds like something that came out of 1984 by George Orwell. Look at the Trail of Tears, for example, one of the horrendous forced migration in world history. During the early 19th century, the US government called for a removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole tribes from their ancestral lands. These tribes may sound familiar because they were the five largest tribes that adapted to American culture. Over 100,00 Native Americans were forced to move because of the growing population of whites and the value of the land that they held. These tribes were forced