OR Blog #41: Today I read an short article from the Library of Congress Resource Guide website. The article was entitled "Colonization". The topic of colonization shows peoples different ideas of if it is good or not. Some think that it was an act of racial discrimination. I think I agree with the people who think this because in one of my classes at school we are talking about how the Europeans saw colonization as a way of ridding the nation of the culture of the colony they were taking over. I believe that definitely people who colonized thought of this idea. Others liked colonization, saying the people being colonized would benefit in the religious and civil ways. Meaning that the natives would learn from the colonizers. I don't like the idea of colonization. They were people there before you moved into the land. It doesn't give you the right to tell them to change their ways and do it your way. Why do other countries want to expand. I guess I know one of the answers to that is money, but still, would you put a price on others' lives and cultures? I wouldn't. That's what I read for today's outside reading blog about colonization.

Citation:
"The African-American Mosaic." A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture. July 5 2005. 11 Mar 2009 .