The
world is a large place but the mind is the largest place of all, with
exploration of ones mind will come enlightenment, and freedom. For we
are living in the age where the media shapes your thoughts motivations,
likes and dislikes. From a young age we’re are not taught to be discerning
with the information we receive, parents themselves who have become
accustomed to the status quo with the assurance that it will do their
child no harm allow the child to be parented by television one sided
literature, and skewed historical facts which all eventually lead to
adults who do not question their situation.
A race which has succumbed to another race will either be eliminated
as to pose no threat, or assimilated to reach the same end, this can
be seen throughout history for example The Muslims entered north Africa
and imposed religion and language, on its occupants leading to people
which shared similar motivations to their conquerors and therefore were
less troublesome. The African slaves that were captured and taken to
the western world were forced to relinquish their native tongue and
gods in deference to a western tongue and a Christian ideology. As these
races evolve these impositions that were once alien to them become ingrained
in their consciousness and then become natural behavior, this can be
seen in present society where the children of former slaves have inherited
their former oppressors language, ideals, history, and even their names.
The
historical value of a name is of great significance to society it signifies
a culture, geographical region and even religious beliefs, an assimilated
race loses this identifiable factor for example people of African decent
who were held in bondage had to relinquish this identity, and the effect
is that in modern day society they do not associate themselves with
names that identify that they originally hail from the region of Africa,
for example a person of African descent in this society will normally
have adopted a western name such as John, Thomas, e,t,c yet the reverse
is never true as an individual of western descent will never be called
Kofi, Ade, or Nmandi as they cannot associate themselves with these
names and consciously or unconsciously will never see fit to give their
offspring a name that they have no identification with.
Assimilation
is desirable in the minds of the assimilated. For example the natural
belief is that to ascend in the society of your assimilators it is necessary
to mimic their appearance, mannerisms, behaviors, and belief systems.
This is understandable as the assimilators take on a dominant standing
in the eyes of the assimilated. During the period of slavery the western
slavers assumed this role, where all that they did was right and just,
the way they dressed was the ideal way to be clothed, their religion
was the right one to follow, and they were aesthetically closer to god
than their enslaved counterparts. The effect this had upon the slaves
was to look upon their slavers as the image to attain. And this is reiterated
within their offspring to this day. For example the straightening of
ones hair is an example of mimicry that has become an almost unconscious
act within the modern descendants of bondage, their aesthetic beauty
is given greater value the more they correspond to the western aesthetic,
and their beliefs and ideologies follow similar patterns to what is
considered a western physiology.
