There Goes The Neighborhood

From the perspective of the native people, I would imagine that they were shocked by the arrival of the explorers and settlers. I do not think either of them expected to meet with any other types of people, other than their own. Luckily for the explorers and settles, they did not put a guard up when the settlers and explorers came. If anything they did the exact opposite and completely let them in. The native people were willing to share their land, trade, and interact with them. They were seemingly unaware of any ulterior motives the settlers and explorers may have had. Such as a search for bullion as well as forcing their religion onto the native people. The natives simply did not know enough about the value of the trade they were receiving as well as giving away. And did not see any bad intentions coming from the settlers and explorers because they were peaceful people who wanted to see the best in everyone. In modern communities when two or more groups come together it is civilized along with being developed and run equally. This is because we have learned and discovered overtime that the conquering of one community over another often results in rebel and violence. Although, some modern communities that are stronger than others may actually have the tools to completely take over another community by means of force. It may be easier for these groups to just take over by force, but that is not the correct way for two communities to join together. In some ways we are more civilized than we were in the time of the native americans and the settlers and explorers, when their plan was to force religion upon the native people through force and violence. In other ways, we are just the same. When a group feels superior over another it seems like a waste of time to try and ingratiate themselves along with the "lower" class group of people. We would like to think now that we have moved to a place of equality but there will always be superiority and people who do not believe in equalizing. The conflicts and struggles that come from clashing lifestyle, racial, cultural, and religious differences have led to riots, wars, bombings, attacks, protests, ralleys, and most all the violence in the world. It is already hard enough to have an individual community with its own conflicts and struggles about these issues but to attempt to join two communities together and not expect these issues is naive and there is too much history of this happening to not plan for it.