The Madness of Hamlet
... lands that the Europeans were conquering believed that despite the fact that the Europeans had a strange culture or religion, they were no better or worst then they themselves were. The Europeans came to believe that all other religious groups were heathens and were inferior to them. The Europeans did not always discriminate by religion they looked down upon strange and unfamiliar cultures as inferior or barbaric. The Europeans were barbaric for another reason besides their lack of acceptance of other religions; they enslaved other human races that they found to believe to be inferior to them. No action in one's mind can be more barbaric then to enslave your own race into doing work that you your self should do. The Europeans chose one particular race, the African Americans. The Europeans traveled to the African’s lands, attacked the Africans own villages, and tore families apart for their own benefit. Another act just as barbaric as the Europeans taking slaves was the chieftains of the African tribes that sold their own flesh and blood, the same people that looked up to them and relied on them for protection, to the Europeans for a few priceless bead necklaces or a few meager pots and pans. This is barbarity in its most disgusting portrayal! The Europeans did not care for nature as the natives did nor did they care what was to become of the natives once there land w...