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Anglo-Saxons

A young and naïve child is convinced by an older sibling to commit a rude and senseless act in the presence of his parents. After witnessing the act, the parents then become quite irritated, and they seek out to find the one responsible for informing the child of the wrongdoing. Once the parents address the guilty sibling, he is disciplined because of his heartless intentions. In this instance, the child is not held accountable for his actions even though he was the one guilty for performing the offense; the parents might even argue that the child did not know any better, and that the older sibling is all to blame. When a person commits an act of prejudice, is it then okay to blame him or her for it, or would it be more accurate to blame the originator of all prejudicial comments? Should this person be held accountable for his or her action, or is there someone else to blame? Many of the earliest societies in time had practiced forms of prejudice for thousands of years. Are people in today’s society similar to the child in the story in that they do not know any better? The truth is that the naïve people in today’s society are continually being convinced by their “older siblings,” or past


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The Anglo-Saxons contributed to this philosophy by creating their own “subordination”; this logical concept spread from generation to generation like a wildfire. “Thus we find Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C.E. in Greece seeking to explain the (supposed) superiority of his own people to the peoples of western Asia by arguing that the barren soils of Greece had forced the Greeks to become tougher and more independent” (Appiah 275). Not only did the Anglo-Saxons have division amongst themselves, but also furthermore they had division amongst others. The Anglo-Saxons thought of themselves as a superior civilization and had placed themselves high above the other civilizations. Evidence of this is seen in Martin Tupper’s famous words when he wrote:

fastened to the plough, I must plow a whole acre or more every

generations, to indulge in acts such as prejudice, and the initiators can truthfully go to blame.

From the east to the west,-stretch forth! stretch forth!

“Stretch forth! stretch forth! from the south to the north,

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