RE: That's Edutainment! Using a Hollywood Movie to Teach The Age of Exploration/Discovery/Expansion to Students with Learning Disabilities Part II
What a great teacher you are making! thank you for us all!
Cameron was greatly inspired by the South American tribes he connected with before making the movie and, as you underline so well in this article, the characters found in the movie have an awful lot of parallels to the actual few last aboriginal people of this planet.
The knowledge is still within the planet, here and there and it is still mostly a matter of stopping our madness and reconnecting with the land where the land is still vibrant, healthy, unspoiled or profaned/raped.
The philosophy of welcoming depicted by the great majority of tribes of this world parallels the ways of life itself. Some tribes and/or small groups and/or individuals having had the misfortune, in some ways, to encounter a philosophy exposing them to the dangers of an opposite way of thinking developed a warrior like culture and promoted it as a way of survival, eventually as a way to conquer... Unfortunately, this way of behaving is unsustainable for all tribes as it eventually bit one back, like the snake.
There are still so many tribe having to deal with this conquerer mentality that goes against the way of life... We are still all paying greatly for it today and might even perish at its hands. May we all get together as one again for the sake of life and our survival and thriving. All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
Wow. This comment would make a great post. So many wonderful and powerful thoughts here. I too agree we need to come together as human beings. There are so many great things we can do when we embrace different cultures and see the good in each other instead of trying to change people to be like the "dominant" group.
Thank you so very much @handshot, your equally great words of recognition are thoroughly appreciated and close to our one heart. as much as it may be doing a very good post, if it is not read or recognized, what is going to be the worth of it. Right now, my writing doesn't get much attention even when I spend 5 days on an article, like the last post I ended up sharing, I still end up making less than $20.00 worth. Maybe it is more in the net worth or it but in the value of the change/movement provoked in the single or few that it should be measuring with ,but my time is also taken in consideration and feel like the time isn't ripe yet for me to do so. Later, most hopefully sooner than later, I shall write on this topic.
Thank you so very much for your kind words of encouragements this way. Namaste :)