assignment 14: face 2 face

1.   Having worked through all the assignments on the webquest, do you think that what happened to the Native Americans could be considered an act of genocide? Why?

-       The definition of genocide is: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

This happened tot the native Americans. ‘The White people’ wanted to kill the native Americans. there were 12 million native Americans killed from 1500 to the end of the 19the century.

-       The only genocide we can remember of is the genocide from 1940 to 1945. Where the Germans wanted to exterminate the Jews. We see a parable between the Jews and the Native Americans. The thoughts behind this act, was to kill as much people as possible. Hitler killed a lot of people in small amount of time. The ‘White people’ killed a lot of people in a long period of 400 years. But they both killed a lot of people, so you can compare those two. Because a genocide is an extermination of a nation, there is nothing included about time.

2.   How can we prevent such acts of genocide from happening again?

-       To prevent genocide, we have to understand it. Education is a big part of it. People have to learn about it from a young age. You have to know the negative consequences, about what a genocide infects a certain kind of group. Because then you pay attention to no discrimination and no racism.

-       In a national appointment from 1948. The country’s agreed that in a younger stage of genocide, the government has to tackle this situation. But in the future there will always be racism. We think the government has be more stringent with racism. They have to equalise and protect the black, the Native Americans and other vulnerable groups. They can do this by, punish the ‘bad’ people harder if they do something what is out of hand.

3.   Can you explain the title of this web quest?

-       The title is ‘back to the future’, we have looked back to the genocide of the native Americans. We all know it was a tough time for the native Americans. Nowadays  after crisis you saw a upcoming flow of world leader that are racist. For example Geert wilders, Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen from France. If we fulfill those dreams of them, we will discriminate on a big scale and maybe even worse like they did to the Native Americans.

4.   How can we create awareness of the situation of the Native Americans in the past and the present?

-       In America we have to make awareness, just to talk about it, bring it in the media and teach this on school. I know it’s not a part of the history, where you should be proud of. But the new generation has to know about the Native Americans. Now they live in camps, get no money. They just don’t have the opportunity to better their lives.

-       In the Netherlands they have to teach it on schools, because now we only learn the Jew genocide. It is important that we also know what is really going on in this world and not the soft version of the real story.

5.   How can we link this to the present IS situation?

-       I think you can’t compare those two, because those situations are very different. With the IS there is a group that want to rule the world. They use violence to achieve this. With the native Americans genocide, there is a group that wants to exterminate as much as Native Americans.

-       If I have to link it, I would say that trump doesn’t wants foreign people in his country. And the ‘White people’ wouldn’t want the Native Americans in their country.