Sunday, October 25, 2009

"Natives and Immigrants"... The constant fight between cultures.


This time, I will write my reflections about natives and immigrants, a topic that we have been discussing in classes, and which is connected with the terroritorial formation of what we know today as: United Kingdom.


One of the characteristics of this magnificent process of settlement in the sparsely populated England lands was the fact that natives allowed to shared their way of living with the immigrants and they also brought new ways of subsisting and living which was making richer the differents cultures that inhabited those inhospitable lands.


However, the process was not as easy as books tell us. Maybe the resitence of native was stronger than we can imagine or maybe they saw new opportunities of subsisting in the new people coming.

During these weeks I have been thinking about the huge changes that England has experimented. Nowadays we can see how United Kingdom has developed in all possible aspects. Nevertheless, I would like to homage to all those people that with their blood and sacrificies helped to form what we know today as UK. They, as most of natives and immigrants had to struggle for getting what they wanted to.


This also made me think that human beings were created to live in community and help each other. It is truth that always someone has to win, but this time, instead of criticizing Romans or Anglo-Saxons I would like just to strees the fact that human beings build each other. We need each other to grow up, to develop and to share worlds with others. It is important that we as a future teacher do not impose way of seeing or living, but also, it is imporant that we learn our students that people learn when they related with others, and when we respect others viewpoints or customs.

1 comment:

  1. Oscar, I have no excuse for my delay. I did my reflection but I know I do not deserve the same grade that people who really did it at time, soo don't worry!! I understand,and thanks for waiting tooooo much time!

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