A little over a hundred years ago, the ruling class of this country was still eradicating native peoples like they were rodents. A hundred fifty years the country tolerated the selling of other human beings and the physical abuse of them, to the point of death. In that same era, men were allowed to physically abuse and torture their own family members, without legal repercussion. A mere fifty years ago, educated minorities were seen as a threat, and were lynched, while law enforcement and the judiciary looked the other way.
Here is the question: Fifty, a hundred, two hundred years from now, what aspects of the culture are the people of this country going to look back on and wonder how we could be so unenlightened? Something that as a general culture we don't even question now...
2006-09-11 13:32:08 · 2 answers · asked by finaldx 7 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Dear Finaldx,
Your question needs no answer, because it's a complete statement as it is. You are such a bright, informed and observant person.
When I read your answer in the "Jesus vs Mohammed debate" question, at first I thought it was my own answer until I found mine and realized we had answered it almost identically. I wish there were more smart, enlightened and nice people like you on these pages. I'll have to keep an eye out for your ffuture responses.
2006-09-12 05:26:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that all of the publisized scandels will seem horrid to those in the future. For example the terrible acts of torture in Iraq are more terrible than i can imagine. I'm sure that people in the future will think that we were just as barbaric as those acts make us out to be.
2006-09-11 20:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by UNknowN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋