http://pualifestyle.com/blog/people-shape-your-world/ Lifestyle for Modern Men Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:42:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://pualifestyle.com/blog/people-shape-your-world/comment-page-1/#comment-2895 Tom Church Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:13:45 +0000 http://pualifestyle.com/blog/?p=2110#comment-2895 Hey Chikito, I think that Christopher Columbus had both his fans, and his enemies. As with all history it's impossible to know the absolute truth. Children read stories that include characters (both fictional and factual) that shape their lives. Some of these stories refer to real life men, depicted as heroes when in actual fact they weren't. With the ability of hindsight, Columbus was a bad man. Could the people in his day know this? Yes and no. Our current perception of Columbus shows that our society now sees imprisonment of the body and mind as a crime against humanity. We now realize that colour and creed should not mean that we treat others with indifference, and that prejudice alongside with discrimination is wrong - yet still very much in existance. However, where Columbus used people as slaves for physical labour, one could argue that in today's world, the equivalent of Columbus (huge colonial power) are the global banks, and that they use third world countries (LDCs) as slaves not for physical labour, but for money acquired through debt. The question then arises, if debt is considered acceptable (nearly the whole world is in debt) is it bad? How and why does debt shape our world, and what can we do to improve the situation? Thank you for commenting, I look forward to your response. Hey Chikito,
I think that Christopher Columbus had both his fans, and his enemies. As with all history it’s impossible to know the absolute truth. Children read stories that include characters (both fictional and factual) that shape their lives. Some of these stories refer to real life men, depicted as heroes when in actual fact they weren’t. With the ability of hindsight, Columbus was a bad man. Could the people in his day know this? Yes and no.
Our current perception of Columbus shows that our society now sees imprisonment of the body and mind as a crime against humanity. We now realize that colour and creed should not mean that we treat others with indifference, and that prejudice alongside with discrimination is wrong – yet still very much in existance. However, where Columbus used people as slaves for physical labour, one could argue that in today’s world, the equivalent of Columbus (huge colonial power) are the global banks, and that they use third world countries (LDCs) as slaves not for physical labour, but for money acquired through debt.
The question then arises, if debt is considered acceptable (nearly the whole world is in debt) is it bad? How and why does debt shape our world, and what can we do to improve the situation?
Thank you for commenting, I look forward to your response.

]]> http://pualifestyle.com/blog/people-shape-your-world/comment-page-1/#comment-2803 Chikito Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:26:50 +0000 http://pualifestyle.com/blog/?p=2110#comment-2803 "Christopher Columbus was a bad man. He promoted slavery, racism and killed thousands of natives as he stole their land." What do you think then about the simple fact that in those days things like racism, slavery and colonialization were considered acceptable and normal and that he was considered a successful man, was he a bad man then? If so many people say he's bad now what does that say about our society now and what we consider is good and bad? “Christopher Columbus was a bad man. He promoted slavery, racism and killed thousands of natives as he stole their land.”
What do you think then about the simple fact that in those days things like racism, slavery and colonialization were considered acceptable and normal and that he was considered a successful man, was he a bad man then? If so many people say he’s bad now what does that say about our society now and what we consider is good and bad?

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