Society People Once Knew Summary

The Downfall of a Society People Once Knew
According to an article title, “Atrocities against Native Americans”, over 90% of the Martians and Native Americans died due to not having any immunity to diseases from different cultures (2016). The way people treated each other in the past is unacceptable. In this analogy, the Martians are portrayed as the Native Americans while the Earthlings are portrayed as the European settlers. After learning about the Martians in Earth history and comparing it to today’s society, there is one question to discuss. How should a society treat a culture they decimated during the study of their history? A society should treat a culture they destroyed in a large proportion with respect and learn from past mistakes so people do not repeat the same behavior in the future.
People learned that the Martians were patriarchal. This means that children obtained their names from their fathers. This is one example of a common characteristic shared by the early European settlers. As stated by Eric Foner, under English law, a married man controlled the family’s property and a wife had no independent legal identity (Foner, 2014). This is also shared
There was also no idea of kinship and the Europeans shared this characteristic. The earthlings, however, were the opposite. Kinship was important to Earthlings and they are mostly considered extended family. Kinship was also important to Native Americans. These differences between Martians and Earthlings influence the relative of individualism and communitarianism. Both Europeans and the Martians had a challenging time understanding the idea of a community because of their strong beliefs with individualism. The Native Americans and Earthlings believed that communitarianism was more important than the individual was. Due to the different views of individualism and communitarianism, this would create a great deal of conflict between the two