Clash of Cultures

On September 6, 1620, 102 men, women and children from England boarded a small cargo boat called the Mayflower and set sail for the New World. The passengers left their homes in England in search of religious freedom from the King of England. Today they are known as "pilgrims."

The Plymouth colony was originally intended to be in Virginia but the Mayflower veered off course and landed in Cape Cod, modern day Massachusetts. The Plymouth colony was founded by the radical Puritan sect called the Separatists (also known as the Pilgrims). This colony was founded to escape the persecution of the British crown. Conveniently, the location of their colony placed them outside the jurisdiction of British rule which allowed them to form their own government based on the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact allowed them to create their own laws and made them no longer subjects of British

On July 22, 1587, long before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, 117 hopeful colonists from England landed ashore onto a tiny island along the coast of what is today North Carolina. The group unpacked and founded a settlement, Roanoke Island. Then they vanished without a trace.

Jamestown is located in Virginia (“Jamestown Colony” n.d.) Jamestown was founded in 1607 (“Jamestown Colony” n.d.) Plymouth was located in Massachusetts (“Plymouth Colony”n.d.) Plymouth was founded in 1620 (“Plymouth Colony” n.d.) The Jamestown colonists came from England ( “Stebbins, 2011”). King Jame I gave Virginia its name (“Stebbins, 2011”). The Plymouth colonists came from England (“Plymouth Colony” n.d.) The Jamestown colony was allowed to use the river (“Colonizing the Chesapeake and New England Colonies” n.d.) The goal of the colonists of Jamestown was to find a settlement ( “Stebbins, 2011”). The goal of the Plymouth colony was to find a place where they could worship the way they wanted to

In 1619 the separatist and workers signed a paper and made a new colony. They got two ships to sail the Speedwell and the Mayflower the Speedwell broke down and the Mayflower had to fit them all

Thirteen years after Virginia was colonized, the Pilgrims formed the colony of Plymouth. The Pilgrims, who were English,

Puritans in England didn't like the English Church and wanted to practice their own religion, so they moved to Holland. It wasn’t what the Puritans were looking for, so 102 of them boarded the Mayflower in 1620, and landed at Plymouth under the lead of William Bradford. On the ship, the people on board wrote the governing document that would be put into place after they landed. Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to farm and survive in the new world, which lead to the first Thanksgiving. 10 years later, a second group of Puritans followed the Pilgrims, under John Winthrop. Massachusetts was self-governing with some influence from the Bible.

The colonies in New England began as a religious voyage. New England colonists, consisted of Puritans and Pilgrims, wanted to escape religious persecution in England. Pilgrims were Separatists and wanted to completely separate from the Church of England. The Puritans believed that they could reform the Church of England. For both of these groups, they believed that they could solve their problems by voyaging to the New World and establishing their own colonies. Through a belief of hard work and through God’s help, many predicted that these colonies would be a model for the world. Life in the New England colonies was brutal, especially the winter. During the winter of 1620-1621, only 44 out of 102 colonists managed to survive in the Plymouth colony. Most of the colonies relied upon farming for their source of food. For Plymouth, an English-speaking Indian named Squanto helped the colonists learn farming techniques. Government structure was significantly different in the New England colonies. In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, representative government was frowned upon. Only the “saved” were allowed voting rights. Both Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had governors, just like in Virginia. Unlike Virginia colonies, the New England colonies’ religious leaders held the highest positions in the town. These religious leaders were very influential in political matters as well as enforcing religious rules. The colonists’ relations with the Indians were very similar to the Virginia colonies. At first, colonies tried to cooperate with the Native Americans. However, when colonists pushed westward, conflict was imminent. Many New England colonists believed the New World was the “Devil’s Homeland.” As a result, they believed that the Indians were devil worshippers. This added even more tension between the colonists and natives. Eventually, the tension between the

In a sermon delivered aboard the ship Arbella, future-New England governor John Winthrop declared that the new colony "...shall be as a city upon a hill” with “the eyes of all people upon us” (1630) . Evidently, Winthrop’s sermon held great significance for the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as this sentiment – that is, to be an illuminated, moral example to the Old and New World – remained foundational to the development of their lives in the New World. Thus, it is clear that religion was tremendously significant in the lives of the northern colonists –known as ‘Puritans’ or ‘Separatists’ – particularly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries following colonial expansion into the New World. The colonies – Plymouth, Connecticut,

The pilgrims wanted to separate themselves from the Catholic Church of England which is why they were called Separatists and wanted to find a place where they had Freedom of Religion and were ready to sacrifice everything they had in England to travel to America so they could practice their faith how they wanted to. They took the Mayflower a ship that would take them to Virginia but when they got there they landed in New Hampshire instead. Since there were no laws there the 40 men in the ship came up with the Mayflower Compact which said “they would agree to make and obey all just and equal law that would be in the overall best interest of their new colony and not favor one religious group from one another” and this was the start of Democracy in America. When the Pilgrims found the place where they were going to settle they named it Plymouth Colony and it wasn’t smooth sailing from there because half of the members in the mayflower died due to poor living conditions and diseases but those who survived did so with the help of Matsui the Wampanoag Chief who offered the Pilgrims shelter and food throughout the winter after they celebrated with the tribe which is later known as

In August 1620 Pilgrim families boarded the Mayflower and after several weeks at sea they arrived at the tip of Cape cod which is now known as Massachusetts. The pilgrims soon realized that they had landed far north of Virginia grants and had no legal authority to settle in the area. William Bradford, the Pilgrim leader, learned that some of the others felt no obligation to respect the rules of the Pilgrims. The male heads of Pilgrim and non-Pilgrim families drew up a compact that made all signers to

The pilgrims arrived to Plymouth, Massachusetts December 11, 1620. Massachusetts during this time was a cold and dreary place. As the newly arrived pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower in their layers of stockings, waistcoats, petticoats, and breeches they knew nothing about the people or the new land they had arrived to. Considering Planting season had come and gone the newly arrived pilgrims had to find a way to survive. If the pilgrims wanted to survive they would have to learn how to tend and manage the land from their Native American friends the Wampanoag.

As the pilgrims spent their first winter in America, they suffered a great deal of illness from the freezing conditions. The historical significance of this harsh weather comes from the attitude the Separatists had, persevering when times were hard. This positive attitude left a great mark on this nation, creating a sense of hope for years to come. They kept faith, believing that God was on their side and they were later

As said by Jonathan H. Turner cross cultural conflicts are "differences in cultural values and beliefs that place people at odds with one another". Generally cultural conflicts have been used to describe crime and violence but that is a pretty narrow definition. The objective of this article is to elaborate upon the conflicts varying across cultures, not only criminal but also cover various other aspects of it such as identity conflicts, conflicts in ethnic and culture, etc. Globalisation has brought us closer together. In the 21st century, we live for the first time in one global community. But it is a community composed of many strands which must be carefully woven together into a whole. The article shows pluralism as cross cultural conflict and goes deeper into the roots.

In the plot of Nadine Gordimer’s “Six Feet of the Country,” and William Trevor’s “The Distant Past,” the conflicts are similar as they are both cultural external conflicts. These stories center on the basis of cultural conflict, which is a confrontation between groups of people whose values, beliefs, and and roles in society put them against each other. The conflict in the plot of Gordimer’s is an external conflict, “At last, it became clear that we would never get Petrus’s brother back, because nobody knew where he really was. Somewhere in a graveyard as uniform as housing scheme, somewhere under a number that didn’t belong to him, or in the medical school, perhaps, laboriously reduced to layers of muscles and strings of nerves?