#Headline Creation Challenge##I'm Reading on the Island##Media People Weekly#The Facts" book provides a basic idea: whether living in the United States, China or Mexico, people of the same class have basically similar lifestyles, and the greater the class difference, the greater the difference in lifestyle, nationality or race, and there is no gap that many people think and exalt.
For a group of people who have not lived in the United States, the political correctness and equality represented by the Civil War are unquestioned, irrefutable, and almost as reliable as Kepler's Third Law. But the Confederate monument that keeps popping up in "The Turn of the South", Jack . Leland misses the territory, Jim. The tobacco that Epwhite remembrances in his poems is ambiguous about the past, because "for poor white people, race is their identity." People in good situations can bypass that topic and find another career to achieve self-esteem; But for people who have no money and little education, it is not so easy; Without race, he would lose his idea of who he was. Skin color is the most obvious difference that cannot be hidden, regardless of specific people, and the intuition that "if it is not my race, its heart must be different" arises, and the tragedy of the party being different will always be staged.
Cover of "The Turning Point of the South"
Autonomous marches, which have not materialized in some countries, have lost their power over political issues in the American South, and when seemingly radical protests have become normalized, they have "drained attention" and protests have "shaped this country," said Hosea Johnson, leader of the black political movement. The problem Williams kept at this is that the issue has slipped into the cliché of safe zone in round after round of political correctness, with Forsyth's sheriff breaking the phrase "It's not about race, it's about society and the economy." The economy is a slow, gradual process, "marches do not stop, but there is no way to change", no politician dares to easily promise, playing the racial safety card, more secure. "The poor are held hostage in the game," black and poor whites, with their once enslaved blood, now more insidious and based on the Nissan Truck Factory and Auto Assembly Plant in Nashville, "who live in a small space" and "have no unionization."
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Blacks face a loss, a loss of their own culture and more complex emotions after racial integration into white society. "If you want to become a successful person as a lawyer in the United States, you can only imitate or become white." Pastor Bernice. Kraussel believes that "racial integration has ruined some black children," said Morris, director of the Florida Parole Board. Crockett put his son from an all-white public school into an all-black university affiliated school, he began to be unaccustomed, lost his distinctiveness as a black, and then gradually adapted, a drop of black paint into the entire black ocean, experienced infinite pleasure, no special treatment, he was born to be one of them.
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Booker. The greatness of Washington's work to build black universities in Tuskegee was that he provided a foundational paradigm for all blacks freed from slavery to support the entire black community transported from Africa by the slave trade, where there was no thousand years of kingdom history and a void. All-black schools provide a sense of security for blacks tormented by a sense of emptiness, and more and more modern blacks feel the need for a pure "black experience", surrounded by all blacks, a journey of "going home" and "finding roots".
Jack of Charleston. Leland, a descendant of an old plantation owner who prides himself on "the past as a religion, proud of family rather than money, proud of the land and its long-standing association with it," argues that "younger blacks have never really had a connection to the white way of life" and that everyone is essentially going their separate ways, as Heidi sings in the opening song "The black is there, the black is there, the white is there." Black, black, white, black. It's all black here, it's all white here. White, white, black, white. ”
Mixed blood makes the situation trickier, the confusion of identity and the anger that comes with it. Racial integration did not take root internally and respected each other, but this emotion did not spread to the bones, but was more based on specific behaviors generated by education, intelligence, and environment, which was also part of the Southern concept, so the South was complicated. Leland never ceased to move to the glory of the plantation period, romanticized the death of the Confederate army, the complete defeat followed by the glory of regret, and childhood was closely linked to slavery. In the depths of his memory, apart from the miserable situation of the black man, everything is not a problem, and the loss of the South is buried in his body, like the soul of the battlefield that never subsides.
The remembrance of "Red Neck" is even more radical. "Honour killings" are heard of by people outside the community as an anecdote that validates barbarism and backwardness, but for Naipaul himself, the author who grew up in Trinidad, and for poor white men in the South, known as "Red Neck," "perhaps a peasant idea, perhaps especially important in a society where there is no recourse to or trust in the law." That kind of violence has so much attached to it, it is the cornerstone of the stability of a small autonomous society, it is the calling card of the "red neck" personal identity confirmation politics, there are still classes among the poor, there are old systems that must be followed, the pioneer past must carry good manners and religious life, without these, how barbarism stops and how the killing subsides in the vast wasteland of Leviathan. Country music is the "red neck" chant, chanting hymns in churches and circulating country music on the radio, containing "old history and mythology, old community, old faith", old boy, oh, old boy forever.
James the child of the old tobacco family. Epwhite, a teacher at Duke University in Durham, wrote poems about the tobacco industry, which depended on free slave labor in exchange for a slight economic advantage, even if the tobacco industry came back again, it was very different from the world he experienced as a child, and the imaginary world was never traceable. His nostalgia itself is the spiritual need of the lost sheep, "it is necessary to form a life with its own laws and rituals", everything has long lost its meaning, emptiness lingers all around, the sacredness of rituals is infused, and the daily life and interpersonal communication governed by rituals are the scenery of the past.
Naipaul is classified as a foreigner to us, but he is of British-Indian descent, and his confusion about the firm faith of Southern Americans raises fundamental questions, just as we look at a strange stranger, through his eyes, to conduct an in-depth dissection of the faith of the people of the "Rust Belt".
A return to orthodox religion, as Anne Seton puts it, "I'm glad I have those ties." The feeling of free floating frightened me. Although she refers to the traditional family life of her parents, stable values, family, and religion are bound together. When a person cannot become a tide in the turbulent tide of globalization, and is beaten to the end by the flood of information, she/he will be more inclined to grasp the traditional things, and the retro trend is the same, returning to the essential values.
But there are also children of pure Christian families who go into rebellion. Henry suspects the whole body of white Western Christianity, an abuse of reason, that still preaches in Africa imitating the Western church rather than what is of first-century origin. Melvin argues that our current life is "turning on the TV and being entertained", that the idea of biblical supremacy is too old-fashioned and harsh, that the law is incompatible with this worldly life, that Christians who violate the law will feel guilty in their hearts, almost like a great enemy, and that the overly close-knit South is too oppressive. Jim. Abrahamson, on the other hand, was internally self-consistent with biblical truth and political pursuits, becoming a martyr of the new century, having seen the world of flowers but choosing to adhere to strict truths, "which is why they think that man, who has seen the new world and rejected it, is terrifying." ”
This is the confusion of the whole Christendom now, the close-knit and friendly community, the sinners judging each other, competing for giving, the breathless number of laws in the small group, which drags the entire conservative, textualist South and struggles. The church needs to develop like Jim. A man like Abrahamson, while respecting the basic principles, can connect the ancient teachings with the present world, and with unconditional love as nourishment, there is "a fire" in his heart, and he will not be lost in the most complex political vortex, and a small advantage is a necessary condition for survival in the gladiatorial arena. There are so many sins in the world, and people without a bottom line compete with each other to get off the line, and principled decent people can survive and live better.
"For those who feel stronger about themselves, who come into the world with a desire to win and then quit for various reasons, this mission arises because of the desire to make promises, to preach, to sacrifice the lives of God and those who once stocked." Jim is a general example of religion, where most of the world's people walking with empty cups in a chaotic world have the capital to be arrogant in some way, and they choose to abandon the element of ostentatious and transform into the humble servants of God, filling their hearts with sacrifices that never stop taking, calming the inner storms, and becoming the salt and light of peace and joy, and faith makes them experience the valley of death from brokenness to freedom. Most people need to look up to an eternal being, through the sacredness of ritual, to achieve absolute truth beyond the trivial world, and faith has become the belonging of this sacredness.
The United States is open, it is written at will under freedom of speech, and even the word "America" itself has been used in countless scenes and countless texts, but it is too big, the south, the north, the center, the west, the vast land and 300 million people, have not been told truthfully and accurately. This kind of telling is not a qualitative and quantitative precise measurement, but like oral history, perceiving from everyone's chattering conversation, what you care about, you will keep going back and catching the subtle Southerners in fragmentation, Naipaul did it in a long travelogue. Because he is very good at irony and reflection, comparing the former Spanish colony of Trinidad where he was born, taking the details of life experience, and telling the strange points to glimpse the truth of life.
Perhaps the blacks and whites of the American South themselves carry the weapons of reconciliation—good manners and religious beliefs, and people can cross the Tower of Babel, and this leap must happen to specific people, love specific blacks and whites around them, but it is too difficult to push the love of one person to the whole group. Because as the number of manufactures rises, there will inevitably be some defective products. Sometimes it is doubtful why God has given such obvious distinctions of race and color, because their contrast can establish one's place and uniqueness in the cosmic wilderness. Seeing the difference, when it is a natural thing, like the diversity of flora and fauna that is promoted, cultural diversity is the foundation of the construction of the meaning of life. Will. Pastor Campbell has a very well-informed explanation of race: "And I can't explain to them that race was not created by God, God created man, some people go north and lose their natural skin color, others go to the tropics and have dense pigmentation", according to his understanding, it is estimated that the basic skin color of God's earliest creation was mud.