Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Family Values in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Things pass by Apart When Family and societal Beliefs ar Questi unmatchedd\n(and in the refreshing Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe)\nWestern history is make full with examples of mainstream white Christian last expanding to new lands for a phalanx of different reasons. Whether in bet of new lands or riches, or to spread Western and unearthly beliefs across the globe, the West obligate or bought or cajoled their take substances into the lives of other cultures. In some instances this was welcomed (as in pitch the Polio vaccine to the tertiary world), but in many an(prenominal) campaigns the Western new stylus of life desimated a topical anesthetic people (as in the case of Native Americans or Mayans or Incas). In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian tribe known as the Ibo has its own native spectral and cultural beliefs and a singularly unique way of life. and so British Christianity overpowered the Ibo traditions that had been held in Nigeri a for unnumerable generations. Many of the tribes younger generation converted to the Christian faith-without much question-in affright of British wealth and power, or finding acceptance and a place of belonging. Enamored by the new, by the power, by the atmosphere or by the shout out of a better community of interests to join, Ibo villagers renounced their families, their history, their culture, their lives, really. Regardless of the conflict and annoying caused among families and within villages. The Europeans began to dominate the Ibo culture, at last shattering their entire way of life. Ironically, as the Ibo questioned all they had ever known, the beliefs that had held their culture together for generations, they forgot or neglected to look critically at the other side, no question. They bought the British way hook, gillyflower and sinker. And it sunk them.\nQuestioning ones own family apparitional beliefs and traditions can be insecure to the status quo. Once look a re opened to a new idea, even if they are shut again holding remains. But NOT que...
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