Rights of Man: The Division of an Empire
Question 3
The force of modernization and the world of urbanism glorifies the ideals of American culture from incredibly technological inventions to the many colors and backgrounds found in our community. In the book "Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine, the idea of independence and self-governing in such a setting like America promotes a sense of diversity and cultural unity that, in the of time the, did not seize to exist. Paine exhausts into England a message for reasonable expulsion of the branch of the motherland and to exceed the limits that America would disparage in such a simple time. Let's first analyze the body of work.
"Made up, as it is, of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms...different languages" The author's goal is using the excerpt in the opening of his body was to target the issue of the elephant in the room that cultural differentiation along with color and looks, were very uncommon, yet very obscene in society then. Paine pointed a picture that would visualize a world of oddity, eeriness, and even strangeness---but it causes curiosity and somewhat opportunity. In the America today, society is very similar and relatable to Paine's theory on American idealism; much of America cannot even dignify one substantial race because, realistically, the country unifies cultures and skin colors from all over the glove. Just as Thomas wrote "more different in their modes of worship" This exemplifies just one of many components to the country's diverse approach to the various amounts of religion or beliefs. America could not even be named pure due to its incompetence to holding entirely one-raced generations back decades before the ancestors who held this nation together resigned from afar. The composition of unity was after all true, but let's see what Paine was contrary to.
When Paine wrote the book, he might have overestimated America and its ability to succeedingly remain a "just" country, Paine writes, "and all the parts are brought into cordial unison." Nowadays, the country experiences oceans of issues which conspire the meaning of "justice for all"; racism, sexism, poverty, and so many simple ingredients to life are bewildered in this illicit country. "There, the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged...then taxes are few..." it becomes obvious that Paine did not surpass the faith-enriched boundary beyond the 18th century. In fact, every day people, from rich to poor, are living out of balance in both positive and negative ways: the poor only get poorer and the rich only get richer. The author's hope for the community could have worked, but many great leaders fell to the victimization of greed and power. Although diversity and unity do exist, so do the destabilizing factors of malice and deceit; causing an uproar of violence, illusions, and dishonor in the system.
While Paine hit the diversity culprit right on target, his opinion and point on justice and unification were sadly miscalculated. America is oddly enough such a jungle of macabre felines and animals fighting be on top with its predicaments of weaponry, power, and degradation of one another. Our cities are filled with diversity and multi-cultural communities, just as Paine promoted, yet we contradict his ideology by oppressing one another because of those differences. It is a sort of burden to lack common traits; to be accepted or satisfactory in such a society is to be another sheep in the grass, yet when we see an individual with personality or some glimpse of power, we look down upon him through reputation, manipulation, and through a cross-hair. As smart as Thomas Paine was, no one could have been prepared for the tables to turn when America became the country of a nonexistent freedom. To be able to accomplish what Paine believed in, we must grasp awareness to our youngest folks and oldest Yankees to understand what America was sought to be.
