Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Misunderstandings between FN and Europeans
- Social inequalities/Gender roles/Sexual attitudes
- FN women had separate but equally N/B roles
- physically demanding - Europeans saw it as slavery
- FN women had influence
- Europeans thought the men were weak or ignored indescrepency
- European women had finite "lady" like roles
- Sexual freedom
- homosexuality
- pre-marital sex
- ease of divorce
- Europeans saw this as taboo
- FN lived closer to nature and did not understand constraints of Christianity
- inequality of women
- sexual repression
- stratified society
- Reasons for going to war
- FN prove prowess or mourning rituals
- believed in many religions
- did not believe in land ownership
- shared with other tribes in need
- Europeans economic and religious
- religious beliefs
- FN one with nature
- Europeans believed that nature needed to be controlled
- FN tolerant of other religions
- Europeans had little interest in understanding FN
- both looking through own cultural lens