see how history has brought on the way we are today. When we look at the differences between the Native American cultures and the European American cultures of our time, it seems obvious which culture takes family and tradition more seriously. Even now after hundreds of years, we see how American Indians have maintained their traditional lifestyle from the way they dress to how they stay so close to each other in families and as a whole tribe. As a generalization, The European American culture that we come from has become more and more involved with the individual and accomplishing tasks for ourselves, not for the benefit of the family or nation. We can only speculate as to what values we would hold true to our hearts had the Chinese government gone forward with the exploration of the New World. In some aspects I can understand how the expansion was both needed and completely inevitable at the time of Columbuss ventures. One of the most important reasons for Westerneconomic and political expansion was the rise in Europebetween 1400 and 1650 of a vigorous series of independentnation-states with competing economies, religions, andambitions(The West and the World, p. 6)People were starting to think for themselves. They were starting to develop their own ideas and ways of thinking, so far as to break away from the life that they knew. The technological revolution that they were experiencing pushed people to think for themselves and become more individual. It would not be right of us to look back at our ancestors and try to push blame on any one person or group of people. We can only read about what has happened and possibly apply it to our own lives, hopefully learning from what took place. It would be highly beneficial to us to look at other cultures and learn from them. We cant always take for ourselves in hopes to better just our lives in particular. We can learn to give to others in hopes of making our nation a more unifie...
