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                                           Avatar essay                                                                                                                 By   Randy Giles

Don’t let the military control you or you can be the one being colonized. In this essay I will be covering the aspects of cultural contact, marginalization and the role of ethnocentrism in the movie avatar and our natives of 1900’s. Like when the navi where moved and had fought back to control the planet again from the humans. Almost like when our natives had fought Europeans to regain the control of their land. I intend to convince you that our military needs to stop trying to move natives and other cultures out of their land.

Cultural contact is when 2 or more cultures come in contact with each other. When the navi and the humans came into contact the humans have offered them an education and a different place to stay for them to move out of their home tree. Over time the navi had had found a different culture the horse people to fight the humans off. Our natives had done the same thing when the Europeans had started to invade them they didn’t offer the natives an education the Europeans pushed them into the school. The natives had come in contact with other clans to fight them off.

Marginalization is when one culture merges with another culture. The navi where pushed aside when the humans had found that a rich mineral deposit was under the navi tree. When the Europeans found that there was a lot of beavers on the natives land the Europeans had pushed the natives aside to get to the beavers. Both the navi and the natives didn’t stand for that so they fought back and both of them were victors in winning their land back. Now the navi and the natives had been ready to fight for their land again.

Ethnocentrism is when you think that your religion is the best in the world. When the humans arrived on Pandora they thought their religion was the best and the navi were savage beasts. The navi had thought that their religion was the best. Our natives had thought that there was only one religion and it was theirs until the Europeans had came to their land. When the Europeans had came to the natives land they had thought they were savages and had no religion and they thought that the Christian religion was the only proper religion to have.

I hope I had convinced you that the navi and our natives should be left alone and not colonized and changed. If not changed then we can have more cultures and can have our native cultures can go on till time ends. You may ask yourself that why I would try to convince you but I am trying to show you what you as a society and a race that we need to stop our actions and think if they are actually necessary and if we absolutely need to do it. So take that into consideration next you root for native colonization.