Patrick Thaddeus Jackson Analysis

From the three pieces of work all authors all had different views but explained their connection very well. It made you feel as if the question or assumption made was the correct way or the most obvious way of doing things. In reading 1 by the author Patrick Thaddeus Jackson he asked “Must international studies be a science?” I read through the piece I feel as if first you have to break down the question itself first. International means to existing, occurring, or carried on between two or more countries. In the reading it has it “involves cross- boundary encounters with difference.” International is a word that brings others together for whatever cause is at hand. Reasons it could be a study of science because it can either engage economically
My first initial thought of the reading is Native American people and how they were ran away from their land or how they had to create villages to with stand the wild together. The piece as I read through it was about how you have these happy villagers in the small secluded areas that raise cows and big herds of buffaloes. Then it seems to me how people with power began to abuse the little people in those villages. Or people in politics look at them as beneath and all they wanted with is them were they animals and manipulate. The only way the people could survive he had to learn a “new language – power, self-interest, utility, preferences, social choice, possessive individualism – getting a passport to facilitate my entry and membership into that international.” He had to learn all of that to even have a chance to compete or turn the manipulation upon them. When it was all said and done their culture was too important to forget songs, proverbs, legends, epics just to name a few. In conclusions, I drew from that there are people still living before modernized times and are happy where they are in life. Even though people with power make comments about the methods they still going to believe and keep alive traditions of their