Holla from Society

Setting aside the Christian standard and viewpoints of life, what do we people tend to think about these differences in majorities versus minorities? Knowing that even myself as the writer of this entry, have bias and a distinct viewpoint of life, I need to understand other people in order to compare myself and see where everyone is coming from and is currently standing. Relating this to the book, in Peace Child, you can see that there are two major viewpoints; the Sawi and the westerners. The westerners mostly like to follow modern society and basically follow what the rest of the world considers to be "right." This basically means that the western viewpoint is respresenting the majority and the Sawi, the minority. Today, we do not see much killing and cannibalism, but the Sawi's case, these are parts of their culture and traditions. Most the world sees this as grotesque and inhumane; although this the majority viewpoint is somewhat correct, I personally believe that this is not a very good reason to change something else that does not follow what the majority says. Society also tends to exclude these minorities (the Sawi in the book's case) and label them as unrighteous and wrong. Even though law tells us that is fair to follow what the majority says, I believe that these differences should be left this way instead of creating conflicts due to these differences. This definitely does not contradict with the nature of conflicts from occuring because it does occur, instead it merely gives us a simple explanation that we have absolutely no reason to dominate others because of these differences.