Hate… Force… Has been around for centuries and it’s a human emotion that comes without thinking. I don’t think it’s wanted, necessary, or needful in a world already filled with hardship and grief. We’re not proud of it, thought it happens despite best efforts. It’s passed from one generation to the next, growing. It’s affects one and all, those around them and their actions. Hate and force are a subject no one feels comfortable talking about to a certain extent because they are embarrassed and sad that it takes a crucial part in how our world was formed into what it is today.

I believe it is impossible to contain hate and force as it is impossible to contain the happiness one feels on a sunny day. One thing affects another down the line to everyone. The world is a place of commerce and travel. A place where the actions of a neighbor, whether person, city, state, or country, influence and determine the actions that person, city, state and country take. Hate to one trickles down the line of those beneath them, never ending; force is the thing the prods hate on. Force helps hate grow and gain steam. Around the U.S., before we came to where we are today, hate against those different then those themselves thrived; and is still does. Newspapers, goods, and people spread and influenced it. The Native Americans of the west were forced from their homes because they were different, and because we didn’t take the time to understand, we left the mind open for prejudice. Because of the acts of a few who openly expressed their hatred, those around them were influenced to believe because they knew of nothing else. “Savages” they said to their neighbor. “ “Greedy” they said to another and down the line. They then forced the Native Americans off their own land at every chance. Hate and force cannot be just part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it, I believe it completely.

Religion has been a whole filled with persecution since the time of Christopher Columbus and beyond. People came from all over to venture to the New World, to escape religious persecution. The persecution to a few spread and ideas about them flourished. Even in America they could not escape for long because hate and force cannot be just part of the world without affecting the rest of it. When I think of the quote above said by Eleanor Roosevelt, I believe it, and think about how true it is, right down to the core of humanity. Force was used against those escaping religious persecution because they were different from what was widely accepted. Jews, Quakers, all alike in their goal of escaping the old world for the new- to be confronted with that same hate and force because it had followed them on the shoulders of those who came seeking hope and good fortune.

America is the melting pot of the world… and the government is the spoon stirring it. The continental railroad employed thousands of Chinese during it’s construction, working for less than what was thought low and working longer hours than what was thought extensive. This angered the white people who worked because they found themselves losing their jobs. This angered them and hatred spread. The government spread that hatred while thinking that they fixed it when they started exclusion for the Chinese coming into the country and laws banning them to work in some instances. This affected those who had hoped to come; causing more hatred. I think this just spread the hatred and force that was used against the Chinese because after the railroad was built, what would happen to those left jobless? The hatred for the Chinese who now sought jobs elsewhere grew, it could not be contained. This sparked the use of force, pushing them out of cities and slums; out of the homes they worked for and in.

One person’s thoughts affects another, even in something as small as a school or classroom. In class, a poll was taken to see the influence on has on another. Where you ever the victim of persecution? Hate? Prejudice? Force? Where you a persecutor? Have you hated? Have you used force? The answers were wide and varied from victim of ethnicity to persecutor in any number of categories. Hate and force affect everyone, even if they don’t realize or see it. Worldwide we are taught to stand alone and take what is coming and endure the hate and force that is always there; but in reality man is an influenced being who looks to those around him for guidance. Few stand alone, but those who do are listened to. Negative opinions and thoughts breed hatred which in turn is spread like wildfire. The whole world was cut from the same piece of cloth, it’s people and inhabitants deriving from the same place with the same thoughts and actions. I believe that right down to the core, Hate and force cannot be in just part of the world without affecting the rest of it, is the truth.