Cultural Syncretism In Africa And The Americas

UNIT 3 GROUP PROJECT
HUMA215 – Human Cultural by Derrick E, Mosley
AIU Online
May 18, 2013

Abstract
This project is about comparing and contrasting the legacies of cultural syncretism in Africa and the Americas with the resistance to cultural change Westerners encountered in China and India. The group had to answer what cultural factors caused the differences in outcomes. They had to answer what legacies have the differences in types of encounters and degrees of cultural change left today. They had to answer if syncretism had not occurred in the Americas, how might modern culture be different. They had to answer if cultural syncretism had taken root during early encounters in China or India, how might they be different
A legacy can be described as something that is handed down by a predecessor. The Europeans still having trading post in India and China as they did in days of old. African is controlled by the United Nation and is near desolate because of the legacy of the Europeans. This class is a prime example of a legacy or tradition that’s been handed down. Those same Europeans of old control the education system in America today. The Europeans love the boast about there history. Believe it or not the indigenous people were not always in the Americas. They had a history before they came to the Americas. The black people were not always slaves before they came to the Americas but due to the European legacies the real history of the people that were enslaved cannot be taught in today’s society. There is no history of the indigenous people being taught without the Europeans influence behind it. The people that were considered savages by the Europeans in earlier times are still considered savages today. This is a direct result from the legacy of old that still impacts our culture today. The best thing the Europeans did was indoctrinated and turned their slaves against each another. Nowadays the people are dumb down, focus on sports, entertain by television, and killing each other that they ignore the legacy that strategically left them in their current stay of being. If the
It is not as deeply rooted as it is in the Americas. America is a Gregorian Roman Cultural society that accepts all religion. China and India have European influence such as bollywood, sports, and entertainment but it is a communist, capitalistic, society. Some of women work in factors and business instead of sewing and cooking. China and India has its own since of culture and history. If cultural syncretism had taken root in India or China they would not have been able to keep their own tradition. They practice their own religion unlike the Americas whose religion comes from the European Roman influence. They are more respected as a culture since syncretism did not take place, which allows them to keep their own identity. The women still have respect for the men and they are not promoting a feminist movement like the Americas and Europeans. They were able to control and maximize their resource unlike the indigenous and Africans whose land was controlled and taken over. India and China is a dominant and respected power because they were not syncretism by the