Leaver Culture In Ishmael

In “Our fear of Immigrants” by Jeremy Adam smith, the author recalls a story about a young elementary student that got deported during Christmas break. Immigration has always been a controversial topic in this country. Many have different views on why deportation is beneficial and why it is not. In this instance Rodrigo Guzman’s classmates were saddened and confused about why their classmate and dear friend had gotten sent to another country for no apparent reason. It was something these students didn’t understand since it was a subject they knew nothing about, however, the students knew it was not fair to their friend. Smith wanted to dig deeper on what emotions immigrants bring up in people and why was it

The Leaver culture is not an “uncivilized” one. This culture of the Leavers is a great contrast to that one of that that Takers have.

Scott Russell Sanders writes in the passage, Making a Home in a Restless World, “Stand still, we are warned, and you will die”, demonstrating the stereotypical mindset of many Americans (Sanders 17). The passage written by Scott Russell Sanders is a response to Rushdie about the ongoing debate on whether moving or migration is beneficial or damaging towards America. Rushdie who left his Native India for England believes that it is extremely valuable for migrants to make a “new imaginative relationship with the world because of the loss of familiar habits”, insinuating that moving is valued (Sanders 47). While Scott Russell Sanders believes the contrary. He believes that when we finally decide to settle in we will make a more durable home for ourselves. In the passage, Making a Home in a Restless World, the author Scott Russell Sanders utilizes the rhetorical appeal of emotional pathos as well as the rhetorical device of hasty generalization so that he can stress his perspective on migration.

The Taker culture believes that the world was created for them so therefore they can do whatever they want to it without any consequences.The idea that man believes he rules the world is not only false but its constantly causing harm to the planet, Quinn uses a lot of metaphors to try and explain what the takers are doing wrong and what should be fixed. An example would be the jellyfish story,the point of the jellyfish story is to show that man is not the final product of evolution. In Ishmael 's story, the jellyfish tells the anthropologist a factual account similar to the narrator 's, except that its version ends with the appearance of jellyfish.

Thus, people who are attempting to preserve cultures by denying this right to new opportunities are trapping people in ideals they rather change.

People who tend to migrate a lot are less applicable of understanding and appreciating new ways of life. In response to an essay by Salman Rushdie on the benefits of moving, Scott Russell Sanders, in his essay “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World,” claims that people should not immerse themselves into places but rather into ideas and values and also that people should care for the earth rather than for their egotistic desires. Through his use of a nostalgic tone and implied metaphors Sanders critiques Rushdie’s claims about the negative impact of migration and he also demonstrates why it is better for people to immerse themselves to their location rather than old beliefs and habits.

They come to realize that a system of welfare that makes no moral judgments in allocating economic rewards promotes antisocial egotism. The spiritual impoverishment of the population seems to them worse than anything they have ever known in their own countries. And what they see is all the worse, of course, because it should be so much better. The wealth that enables everyone effortlessly to have enough food should be liberating, not imprisoning. Instead, it has created a large caste of people for whom life is, in effect, a limbo in which they have nothing to hope for and nothing to fear, nothing to gain and nothing to lose. It is a life emptied of meaning (Dalrymple, 6).

In this article, Professor King says loss of culture, land and language all play a part in poor health. Having an identity, he says, is especially important for mental health. As for example, many native children in Canada were taken from their families and sent to live at the residential schools. They were educated in the european system, they never had a normal chance to develop a cultural identity. The schools’ so-called purpose was to provide education for native children. But the real purpose was to eliminate native culture from Canada. As Reverend A.E. Caldwell of his school in 1938 said “The problem with the Indians is one of morality and religion. They lack the basic fundamentals of civilized thought and spirit, which explains their childlike nature and behavior. At our school we strive to turn them into mature Christians who will learn how to behave in the world and surrender their barbaric way of life and their treaty rights, which keep them trapped on their land and in a primitive existence. Only then will the Indian problem in our country be solved.” Caldwell view of aboriginal culture and how they should be assimilated to the european culture is how most ministers of the schools thought about native culture. Students were forbidden to speak their language or practice their culture, and were often punished for doing so. All these awful acts at residential schools made natives suffer loss

The Leavers do not exempt themselves from the laws of competition while the Takers do. The Takers, in exempting themselves from these laws, exterminate and remove all forms of competition in their way. In a lesson where the narrator role-plays as a Taker trying to convince Ishmael, a Leaver, to live his life-style (p222) he comes upon the conclusion that being human is living on your own terms rather than the gods’ and this is what separates us from the animals (p225). It is Mother Culture who teaches this since the day we’re born (p37), that we should live on our own terms rather than the gods’ and that we know good and evil and evil is living by chance. Thus, Takers are on a quest to find the one right way to do things and hence all our laws and such contrivances come into being. Controlling the world and the universe is the primary goal of the Takers so they no longer have to live in any sort of fear and as such they are a culture of the new whereas the Leavers are a culture of tradition (p205).

Complete success isolates a person from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all. In a way, people who are exotic develop faster than those who share the same attitudes towards each other and the sense of belonging can either benefit or corrupt an individual in alienation. But, those who do not agree with the social norms have greater impacts in the world’s growth and development. Thus, people do not need to belong in order to be successful, fulfilled members of society because outsiders see things from a different and valuable perspective, learn to be more independent and progress farther than others.

Leavers and takers do what is suggested by their name, leave things the way they are, and only take a limited amount of things from the Earth. Takers, on the other hand, take from the earth without ever replacing what they have taken (41). Leavers are characterized by their preservation of the earth, and how they do not kill or take excessive amounts of things from the earth, like takers do (42). Leavers were the first civilizations on the earth, the hunter-gatherers, and first farmers. The leavers are thought of by the Takers as “living in the past, those who don’t realize that their chapter of history is over” (42). Takers are those that take from the earth with no reserves, takers even take from the leavers. Takers are characterized by their ruthless taking of all the resources available to them, Ishmael illustrates this by telling the narrator that takers believe they are entitled to everything in

The changing environments throughout the ages have caused the movement of thousands of families out of their homelands. Whether forced to make such decisions or doing so by their own desires, all immigrants have had to survive the physical and psychological challenges encountered along the way. To speak about the experiences of all these different people using the same ideas and examples would be quite inaccurate. They all, however, had to live through similar situations and deal with similar problems. Many of them succeeded and found the better future they were looking for. Many others found only hardship and experienced the destruction of their hopes and dreams. All of them were transformed.

    The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.

The main difference between the Leaver and the Takers is their views on how to live. Takers believed their role is to expand and spread their views of life to others whether or not people want them or not. Whereas Leavers believe everything has a right to live the way it prefers to there is not one single way can be right for everyone, and everyone has a right to select their way as long as it does not infringe on others' right to life. I believe I am much more of a Leaver than a Taker, I feel that everyone does have a different way of living that works for them and no one should be told how to live their life otherwise. Another major difference is how they view the idea of culture and how it is passed down. Leavers culture has evolved since

After living a certain lifestyle for an extended period of time, a sudden change in lifestyle abnormally envelops not only a society as a whole, but the individuals who live in that society. The psychological state of the indigenous people worsens due to the forced ideas of the colonizers mixing with their own, which can cause a rift in their thinking. A decision has to be made eventually; however, the colonizer typically tries his hardest to prevent them from making what he believes is the “wrong” decision. Although the colonizer appears to be helping the indigenous people, his true intentions are all but innocent. Due to their technological disadvantages, the colonizers have an advantage over the indigenous people, causing the previous existing people to feel undermined. Even after the colonizers leave, the colonized people continue to bear the scars left behind by the colonizers, as stated by Hayes who argues that, “Post Colonial Theory recognizes the trauma resulting from the alienation of indigenous people from their own land, even after achieving independence” (Hayes). Colonization leaves behind permanent psychological damage, even long after independence has been obtained.