Education about Different Cultures

I enjoy learning about different cultures and their traditions. It is important for everyone to learn about different cultures and races to understand other people’s behavior and beliefs. Knowledge about other races helps lower discrimination and racial tension. Education about how every race has to deal with society’s stereotypes in different ways is extremely significant, because many believe their race is the only one segregated or mocked. There is racial and gender tension within the different races.
It was interesting reading the story ANGRY WOMEN ARE BUILDING, by Paula Gunn Allen, because I do not know about the Indian culture. I never knew that society portrayed Indian males to be “bloodthirsty savages devoted to treating women cruelly” (60). Now I understand that since society put this label on them, they are fulfilling it because they have heard it so much. I also did not realize how many complications Indian women suffer from because of how the government has treated them over the past hundreds of years. There are many alcoholics, addicts, abandoned children and elderly, suicides, violence, and insanity. Another easy way out of the Indian culture and struggles is to go “white”. After reading this story about the struggles of being Indian, I feel that I would stand up for the Indian culture if anyone were to ever put it down.