Cultural Underpinnings of Literature

Religion has definitely taken over the world these days. That's all it's about. Who you pretty much are in life has to do with what religion you are apart of. If you think about it most of the wars we have had are about religion, about who you are, what you are for. I never really took all of this seriously because it never really mattered to me. However, now I realized how important it is. It really went from the color of your skin to what church or no church you are going to.

We really have been talked to about this a lot. I never fully understood why we were taught this because to me it never really made sense to me. What you believe really shapes who you are and what you do. It really shows how you are treated. For example, after the 9/11 attacks that happened, now the whole Islamic culture is hated. Though, it wasn't all their faults, people seem to blame them all. Why? Because they are Muslim and they are to blame. The religion they are and who they will become, will never be the same after what happened. That's the point of this. Apparently the religion we are, shows who we will soon become.

Religion has definitely shaped the political world around us for a very, very long time. For instance now. Barrack Obama is black. He is Muslim. To the world he is the black, Muslim, president of the United States. That's all people see. He is either liked or not. Same thing with Governor, Bill Richardson. When he was in the running for president, few people were opposed to it because he was Hispanic. We will never know if that is the real reason to why he eventually dropped out of the race. In November, every few years or even every year, if you turn to any news channel, all you will see is a bunch of white old guys standing on stage making their speeches. And this is exactly why people "feel right about the white," because they feel safe if suddenly their president has white colored skin. That is how it has been since the beginning of time. Not that they weren't good presidents it's just that it was time for a change. Obama is that change. People, not all people, but people wont ever except that.

Back then teachers and students were never allowed to discuss race or discuss religion because it was not appropriate classroom discussion. However, now it's like no big deal because that is all this world has become, or has been since the beginning of it. We need to be aware of what is happening around the world and that is why we talk about it. All of that is going on around us is important and it will shape are world even further. 100 years from now people will be disscussing, and reading in textbooks about us and everything we went through. Right now to us, it's the present. And in the future to everyone else it will be History.