During the late 1400's, Christopher Columbus and the explorers were on a search for gold. Christopher and the explorers presented gifts to ease the natives from there abrupt arrival to the America's. Christopher Columbus and the explorers attitude at first was very hostile which made the natives afraid. The natives fled because they assumed they were going to be killed. Thereafter, Christopher Columbus and the explorer’s attitude changed in a positive way once they and the indigenous peoples interacted together. The natives upheld a high standard of moral and religious belief system that in acting on those standards, they were receptive to the foreigners. In the end Christopher Columbus and the explorers were outright racist to the natives and disrespected the land of where they claimed as home. Christopher Columbus and the explorers defined there discovery of the natives home as their own.
In my opinion, I am against the colonization of the America's. Christopher Columbus and the explorers were deceptive by giving gifts upon their arrival but the ultimate goal was to take what the natives own and get rid of them. This was outright genocide for the natives. Christopher Columbus and the explorers even claimed to be the first to discover the America's, but the natives were there first? The natives is constituted as a lost generation due to colonization that I would classify this as genocide. I can relate to the native colonization this to the massive gentrification happening in Chicago's historic neighborhoods that were deemed notoriously as dangerous. As I commute to AAU practice and games I notice areas such as Pilsen, Humboldt Park, and Bronzeville now are diversified with various cultures, college students, and work-middle class families. In my opinion it is a great contribution in developing areas that were once deprived however, previous people living and growing up in those neighborhoods are pushed out just as the Columbus and the explorers treated the natives.
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