Destruction of the Indies

In the article, the expert argues that the Spaniards extremely mistreated the natives in their homeland, and I agree because the natives showed no hostility toward the Spaniards when they first arrived, but the Spaniards still violently abused them. The expert also claims that the natives were obedient and loyal subjects and I have mixed feelings about this. On the one one hand, I agree that the natives were good people and had no true intention of hurting the Spaniards. On the other hand, I still insist that the expert might have been a little too dramatic about how perfect the natives were, because they are still human and humans always have some kind of fault. No one is perfect. In the recent discussions of how are country has been founded, a controversial issue has been whether it was truly necessary for the Spaniards to mistreat the natives in the way that they did. On the one hand, some argue that if the Spaniards didn't exert there power upon the natives, then they could not have claimed the land in the way that they did. From this perspective I can see this point because to some people, violence and domination means power. On the other hand, however, others argue that such violence wasn't truly necessary among the natives, and the Spaniards should have found an alternate way to accomplish their goal. My own view is agrees with the argument of finding an alternative way for the Spaniards to accomplish their goal. Though I concede that life was a little different back then, and the way the Spaniards reacted to different situations might have been a little different then today, I still maintain my opinion that the mistreatment of the natives could have been avoided. Although some might object that what happened was unavoidable and that no matter what this kind of stuff happens all throughout history, I reply that the best way to vitalize the past is to learn from it so that in the future we can strive not to make the mistake of our past ancestors. This issue is important because it is an important part of our past that relates to us today.