Yes I do agree with Ryan’s criticism about how cultures influence our behavior, ideas and how it can change our history. Let’s say that you grew up in a Muslim country where religious laws called sharia laws dictated how you would go about your daily life. Where the laws say you had to dress according to what your gender is, and if you were a woman and wanted to go outside you would have to be escorted by a male member of your family. You wouldn’t find this strange at all; you would believe and behave different than someone in a western country and think the way they do things is strange.
Here in the U.S.A even thou this nation is majority Christian we don’t have laws that are based on religious beliefs because we have separation of church and state. We are very proud of being individuals here and think this is the best nation on earth even thou the majority of Americans haven’t even set foot in another country to know if that’s even true.
In “Words make things” I do agree that words are very universal. Like with the word terrorism, when people think of that word they think of people in the Middle East and that’s because the media has drilled it into people’s heads that when it someone one kills a large group of people, they think it was a Islamist. I remember when Anders Behring Breivik, a right wing extremist whom bombed a building and shooting 77 people dead in Oslo, Norway. Everyone I knew thought it was Muslims who did it and were shocked that it was a white Christian male.
This is problem here in the states, although I can understand why some people would assume it was people of Islamic faith because of what happened on 9/11. But we shouldn’t think that anyone who is a part of certain ethnic group is bad because there are good and bad people in every group.
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