How Does Ethnocentricity Cause Conflict ?

When the British arrived and colonized the First Australians land, they're ethnocentric views on the aboriginal race tore the two communities apart causing conflict. The Aboriginals were barely clothed which made the colonizers implicate that they were savages. The British could only state the differences between them and the Aboriginals. When Aboriginals first saw the British they were open minded and didn't judge or fight back they dance and celebrated their arrival. The Australians accepted the welcoming but still thought of them as barbaric. The British described them as savages and animals with no rights. The British were very biased and only looked at the Aboriginal’s culture and rules through their own eyes ignoring the words of the people and basically treating them like animals. The colonizers believed that they were the superior race; they wanted the aboriginal race to be extinct. They tried to remove the native out of Bennelong, they took him to their land so he could grow accustom to their culture. Bennelong did not enjoy living outside his own land and he later on decided to go back to Australia. Bennelong returning back to Australia made them loose hope in the aboriginal race as ever being civilized. In Bennelong obituary they constantly use words like 'barbaric' and 'savage' they also showed how disappointed they were and how the aboriginals could never be equals with them. In the Book "The Rabbits" it says how more of colonizers came which is true, more settlers arrived and claimed more of the aboriginals land. The British took away the aboriginal plantation such as yam and planted their own food. The removal of their crops upset the aboriginals which made them start a war. The goal was to wipe out the aboriginals so they targeted women and children. When the war ended the aboriginals were still perceived as savages and animals and known as very primitive people. At first If the British had looked at the aboriginals as equals, the lives lost by countless wars and act of violence would have been reduce and they culture might have been secured instead of slowly fading away. There were no advantages that came out of the prejudicial acts by the British.

Julius Caesar Solo

Brutus has just given the pulpit to Antony. Antony is taking Brutus’s speech points a manipulating it so it is beneficial to him.

Act Three Scene 2
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus(85)
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—
For Brutus is an honorable man;(90)
So are they all, all honorable men—
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me;
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.(95)
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.(100)
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?(105)
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And sure he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause;(110)
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.(115)

Antony manipulates the crowd by twisting Brutus’s words he uses a lot of persuasive techniques that allow the crowd to believe in him and also plants the idea of mutiny amongst the people. They go wild because so much passion has been stirred up inside them by this speech that is why this speech is significant. It shows Antony as a well spoken person, it also shows that he cares about Caesar a lot. That he is willing to start war in his own country just for his best friend. People believed Antony more because his speech had more techniques and emotion. Brutus’s speech is very unlike Antony’s though he does use techniques they are not as effective and he lacks emotion. Antony executed his speech in a strategic way, he made himself sound weak and the Romans superior which flattered the crowd even more, but the most effective technique, the one that contradicted Brutus’s speech was when Antony went down and made the crowd circle around and see the stabs of the conspirators, it also allows the crowd to see how brutally Caesar was attack therefore making the death of Caesar less honorable and loosing the cause of Brutus’s speech. Overall this passage had a great effect on me I enjoyed reading it and since it is filled with so much emotion I will be able to act it out easily.

Learning Profile A - Logic Dominant

During Humanities class we learned about our Brain Hemispheres and that our brains are split into two, Logic being the left side and Gestalt being the right.Both hemispheres communicate to each other by the Corpus Callosum. When learning is new, difficult or stressful everyone prefers to learn in a certain way, our brain automatically goes to the preferred side. Logic thinkers look at things in linear perspective,starting from parts to the whole whereas the Gestalt learner looks at the bigger picture then starts to look in between the lines and for details.I discovered that I am a Logic dominant learner with an A profile, knowing my profile allows me to be strategic, active and more of an independent learner. It creates a better learning environment for myself and allows me to analyze faster and stress free.

I am more of a pathfinder, I prefer structured learning and orderly structured information and I learn best when I focusing on the details. I am a visual and auditory learner I am able to pick information from my eyes and ears under stress. I learn best when I see what I am being taught I typically prefer images graphs maps etc these visual representations give me more chance of remembering key information.I read to my self out loud and enjoy reading in front of the class and I enjoy acting on the stage. I as an auditory learner, can benefit from recording lectures, watching movies, taping notes after righting them and group discussion.

I need to work on looking at the big picture even when I am stressed out, I find it difficult to connect to my creative side, if I develop sensory motor experiences it will help grow my imagination and creativity.I should experience new ways of learning instead of sticking to one and i should embrace change.

I would like my teachers to know that I do think before I move and I am one of those people who have a to do list. Structured learning helps me a lot because it won't allow me to stray, it keeps me focus and over time I have noticed instructions allow me to understand and plan out easier for example in the Ferdinand Magellan essay that I had to write in Humanities, it became simpler when I made an outline and I wasn't confused because I had sheet to follow.