In Understanding Ordinary Landscapes, it becomes evident that the government-sponsored schools had more of a negative impact on the Native Americans than a positive one. When this happens, one must realize that their culture and ideals will not always meld with other cultures and ideals. Then one must ask oneself, who is to say that your culture and ideals are better than those of another. Obviously one will display a bias for their own culture, but even then, no one can possibly be correct in saying that their culture is better because they have not experienced the other culture.
In the process of “educating” the Native Americans, the government-sponsored schools praised individual achievement. When reading this segment, I began to question what good is individual achievement when the working-world is a somewhat collective society (I think I worded that quite badly – I thought of the people who have jobs and work together, which most jobs involve some type of collaborative effort). So what is the point of only praising individual work when collaborative efforts are inevitable? I don’t get it.
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