Guns Germs And Steel Chapter 6 Analysis
Chapter 3, goes into how the missionaries tried to help blacks after the civil war. The missionaries, however, had more enthusiasm than they did knowledge. When a poet was asked to describe each race he described the whites as tribe chiefs, red people were proud warriors, the yellow people were princes, and the black people were savages with rings in their noses. He talked about how when teaching the blacks, they only teach them about the Caucasians part of it and there is nothing about the Africans who made, developed and refined these practices, equations and theories. For example, when studying language, the students are told that the natural black dialect is something that is wrong rather than that it is a form of “broken-down African
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The no longer feel as if they are a part of the black community, when in all actuality these people in their communities are the one they will eventually have to count on. For example most Negros belong to the churches in the community and they have a large influence on them, but the more educated the Negro gets the less comfort they get from going to these churches. They would rather go to white churches like the ones that they have at the universities. In recent generation the Negros have turned away from the churches and the gap between the masses and the elite is widening. The educated Negros will say that they haven’t lost interest in the churches but they just have the need to be in a church that they feel “matches their intellectual atmosphere”. They mindset of the Negro has changed over time. Initially a black man wanted to go to school to obtain knowledge but now a black man goes to school to retain information long enough to pass a test and get a degree. It is ironic that the only institution that the Negros have control over, the Negro church, is the one that the “educated negro” wants to stay the furthest away from. The blacks had no power or say in the business field but yet they kept trying to change it but they have the power to develop the black church in any way they see fit but they have failed to do
The no longer feel as if they are a part of the black community, when in all actuality these people in their communities are the one they will eventually have to count on. For example most Negros belong to the churches in the community and they have a large influence on them, but the more educated the Negro gets the less comfort they get from going to these churches. They would rather go to white churches like the ones that they have at the universities. In recent generation the Negros have turned away from the churches and the gap between the masses and the elite is widening. The educated Negros will say that they haven’t lost interest in the churches but they just have the need to be in a church that they feel “matches their intellectual atmosphere”. They mindset of the Negro has changed over time. Initially a black man wanted to go to school to obtain knowledge but now a black man goes to school to retain information long enough to pass a test and get a degree. It is ironic that the only institution that the Negros have control over, the Negro church, is the one that the “educated negro” wants to stay the furthest away from. The blacks had no power or say in the business field but yet they kept trying to change it but they have the power to develop the black church in any way they see fit but they have failed to do