Arrivals.. There Goes the Neighborhood

Of course in this situation, everyone will take the Native Americans side. Yeah, because for the most part they were the victims in this situation. All of a sudden a new group of people were coming out of nowhere trying to take what is not theirs. But I have decided to take the hard way through this. Let us look at it from the English settlers perspective.

Yes, we know that the English settlers did do the Native Americans wrong. They used their trust that they gained from the natives against them. Overall to conquer this land and to use it for their own purpose. But then again we cannot forget the real reason they came over to America anyway. They wanted to have a place to call their own. Where they can be comfortable and free to do what they wanted. A place called home.

After looking at it that way it reminded me of the play/novel "A Raisin in the Sun". For a background history this play is set in Chicago around the 1950s. An African American family set to live in poverty, saves up and moves into a predominantly white neighborhood. Being the fact that this is during an era of racism, of course the neighbors are trying to run them out. But all the family wanted was to better themselves. The father, Walter Younger, wants his kids to have a better home to live in. Some place that they are comfortable in. After all the conflicts presented in the play, at the end the family decides not to move and stay in this neighborhood. This relates to the English settlers. Back in their homes they were outcasts and for the most part ran out of England. They came to America to better themselves as well. Even though they did not approach it with great ease, they did gain this land and called it home. 

Regardless of the problems the English settlers brought upon the Native Americans, in the long term it brought greater results. In their time, yes some devastation did occur. And with their arrival the Native American's neighborhood did disappear. Hence "there goes the neighborhood." Some lives were ruined, and relationships were broken. But I do agree with Ireti that I would not change a thing. If it were not for these events my life would be how it is now. I am perfectly fine with it.