educational policies in the United States that have resulted in intentional patterns of oppression by Protestant‚ European Americans against racial and ethnic groups. The historical context of the European American oppressor is helpful in understanding how the dominant group has manipulated the minority groups. These minority groups include Americans who are Native‚ African‚ Latin/Hispanic‚ and Asian. Techniques for deculturalization were applied in attempts to erase the oppressed groups’ previous
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African Americans can trace their religious roots back to African religions‚ Judaism‚ Islam and Christianity. Christianity for the majority of African Americans became the dominated religion because of evangelism by Europeans. Instead of keeping the enslaved Africans submissive and in line Christianity enriched and strengthened the lives of African Americans to seek their freedom. Several of the insurrection and antislavery movements were born in the African American church. From its inception the
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Same Race but Different Treatments Harsh treatment towards slaves was a common practice in Africa and the New World. The treatment of slaves on ships was not as good as some ship owners’ including William Snelgrave described; In fact‚ primarily‚ African slaves faced harsh humiliation and fear of death on their journey to the New World. This essay will demonstrate the causes and forms of treatment experienced by the black slaves on and off ship during the colonial period. Although slave traders and
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Religion is defined as a belief in spiritual beings‚ or a description of practices. The evolution from ancient religions to desert religions has been nothing less than captivating. The similarities and differences between religions make them unique. It is imperative to understand the past to understand the present. Religion as we know it evolved from all of the religions that came before. Whether we agree with the practices or not‚ they in reality influenced our religious beliefs today. Desert
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African- American Protestants make up one of the strongest religious communities in America. This can be linked to the days of slavery where they would get their religion from the slave owners. They made them get rid of any African religions and convert to the religion of the house they belonged to. This reduced the amount of African-based religions such as Vodu in America. After the Civil War‚ many still had hardship in the south as they are free now but not necessarily accepted. This creates a
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When the Euro-Americans started to settle America they forced the Native Americans to adapt their culture and religion. The settlers were very serious about their Christian religion. They thought it was the one true faith and all people should believe in it. Euro-Americans actually feared the Native Americans because they felt that Native Americans were evil because they didn’t have a religion. What the Euro-Americans didn’t understand was that the Native Americans did have a religion and their own
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America. This essay is about Genesis vs. Native American Myths. As stated above there are many similarities about these myths and stories. Both the Genesis account of creation and the Native American myths tell about an intelligent creator that created complicated beings. Creators in both sets of stories have a dwelling in the sky in the Genesis account the creator (God) dwells in heaven thus Christians call him their heavenly father. In Native American stories the creator lives in the sky so
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Native American religions and culture are very complex and that is largely due to the fact that there have been many Native American tribes. In this essay‚ I will focus on the largest most major religions and give an idea of the Native American culture and traditions. The first major Native American religion would be the Earth Lodge religion which originated in northern California and southern Oregon tribes such as the Wintun but then it reached tribes such as the Siletz‚ Achomawi and Shasta. It
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Syncretism did inhibit Native Americans to disintegrate from the dominant society. The purpose of Europeans wanting to teach Native Americans their religion was to assimilate them of Europeans norms and culture because the Native Americans were thought to be the inferior and more barbaric compared to the more civilized and mannered Europeans who assumed that Christianity was the only one true religion caused the Native Americans to be considered the “Other”. The difference of religion is important where
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because many of these religions believe in the same things and are all mostly created for the same reasons which is to make the people feel secure or give the people a meaning in life. The nonreligious people who sometimes may walk on the same street as a religious person everyday may not notice what their life is like or why the heck they would want to be religious. But one thing I as a nonreligious person just found out today is that all of these similar beliefs or religion affected these religious
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