How Does ethnocentricity Cause Conflict?

ethnocentricity can cause conflict, when someone evaluates someone else's culture to their own, they could think that the other culture was different from their culture, they could say the way live is wrong, how they worship their gods are wrong, or their language is wrong. All of these things can lead to conflict, in this case the British were trying to change the Aboriginals culture. The British took the Aborigines children and put them in government camps to learn how to live the British way of life, this lead to huge amounts of conflict. The British made a status of the Aboriginals as animals, due to their culture, and the British took their land. When the British started colonize across Australia they changed the land, planting their own crops and destroying the Aborigines crops causing a lot of fighting and conflict. The fighting then led the British to go on a man hunt slaughtering hundreds of Aboriginals, causing even more conflict. By this time the Aboriginals thought of the British as Demons, the Aboriginals didn't understand why the British were being this way, they thought that if they destroyed some of their crops then the Aboriginals could kill some of the British livestock. Most of the conflict was caused by misunderstanding each others culture. This shows that ethnocentricity can cause conflict.

Julius Caesar blog post

This passage is the very first scene of the play, when Marullus and Flavius confront a group of Roman celebrating Caesar's victory over Pompay.

Marullus and Flavius are upset that these Roman are so forgetful and will support the person with the most power. Marullus then tells the Romans about how they used to wait the hole day to see the great Pompay pass through the streets of Rome. they then split up to rid the street of Caesar's of Caesar image. This is signifigant because this shows that not everyone is a supporter of Caesar, this also intoduces the conflict between the public and Caesar's way of how he want things to be. Act 1 scene 1 lines 35-70

MARULLUS

Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?

What tributaries follow him to Rome,

To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,

Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft

Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,

To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,

Your infants in your arms, and there have sat

The livelong day, with patient expectation,

To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:

And when you saw his chariot but appear,

Have you not made an universal shout,

That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,

To hear the replication of your sounds

Made in her concave shores?

And do you now put on your best attire?

And do you now cull out a holiday?

And do you now strew flowers in his way

That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!

Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,

Pray to the gods to intermit the plague

That needs must light on this ingratitude.

FLAVIUS

Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,

Assemble all the poor men of your sort;

Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears

Into the channel, till the lowest stream

Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.

Exeunt all the Commoners

See whether their basest metal be not moved;

They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.

Go you down that way towards the Capitol;

This way will I

disrobe the images,

If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.

MARULLUS

May we do so?

You know it is the feast of Lupercal.

FLAVIUS

It is no matter; let no images

Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,

And drive away the vulgar from the streets:

So do you too, where you perceive them thick.

These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing

Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,

Who else would soar above the view of men

And keep us all in servile fearfulness.

Duet With Charles Phillip Blanchette.

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