Intercultural Relations Quotes
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This was a common view of Southern leaders. Society had to be monolithic culturally. In the North, the constant immigration from the world over made pluralism much more normative. However, the vast majority of the North opposed slavery and believed that slavery and free labor could not coexist. So the Southern argument on that point was turned on them, and the monolithic views of the South has constantly eroded and become more tolerant and pluralistic and by the 21st century, there were parts of the South that were more tolerant and pluralistic than some parts of the North. Change, reform and liberalism was slow to take hold but it was inexorable.
He was trying to develop an airplane the decade before the Wright Brothers succeeded. However their work did not emerge out of thin air. They had read Chanute’s reports and credit him with a number of their ideas. Chanute, like the Wright Brothers and oither early air pioneers were optimists about the utility of the airplane as well as its feasibility.
Like many of Jefferson’s ideas, this one had great merit but could not be enforced. The idea was to establish “trading houses” amongst the Indians which would operate on a NON PROFIT basis. However, fraud and corruption on the part of the managers of these trading houses in most cases left the Indians with far less than the fair market value of their goods and the “white” commodities were sold at inflated prices. Jefferson also believed in minimal government so he never set up any kind of audit mechanism or supervisory system of the “trading houses” and instead of helping the Indians often cheated them even more than private traders would.
