Saturday, September 28, 2013
Modern Puritan
In today's society, I would have to say that the American people as a whole are almost a symbolic version of the modern puritan society. While we are no longer as strict or nonconforming, we still share a large amount of characteristics with the old puritan society. For example, look at our laws on immigration from Mexico. A large "problem" in the US is with the illegal immigrants coming into America from Mexico. This is much like how the puritans treated the Indians by trying to keep them out of land that doesn't really belong to them. Also, they wouldn't have to be illegal of you would just let them in in the first place. Another reason that puritan society and modern day American society are similar is in the way that we persecute illegal aliens, much as the puritans persecuted adulterers. We try to exclude illegal immigrants by putting them on the edge of society and taking away their right to vote, because they were not born in the US and did not follow our "proper" customs. How is this so different from how the adulterers were shamed and cast out of society because of their crime? Also, in parts of Arizona now all Mexicans are required to have papers on them at all times that prove that they are a citizen. In my personal opinion, that sounds a lot like having to wear a letter A to show that you are an adulterer.
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what you are saying is true about the similarities between american and puritan society is true but i would have to question your example and in bringing race in this issue and a whole different country in this other than that it is fine
ReplyDeleteYour comparisons seem to be vastly different, but they make sense somewhat, with adulterers being treated a certain way with the puritans and now illegal immigrants with us. But I'm a little confused when you were talking about the indians and then switched to adulterers when you could've made a better argument by sticking to one.
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