The key development in the study of European integration is the growing awareness of the “new world” created for both whites and Indians as a result of their contact. Earlier histories showed the creation of the European civilization over Indian “savagery”, or illustrated the decimation of native peoples through military defeat and disease. In both versions, native peoples were seen primarily as passive victims, but recent analyzation of past writings and tell another story entirely. They draw the attention to the enduring native resistance to white domination. Even more importantly to the multiple forms of cultural adaptation and accommodation that took place on both sides. This paper will explain these ways in which the west served to orientalize the native inhabitants of the new world, and will show why the European integration was fundamentally wrong from all aspects.
The first way to describe the Europeans differences from the “other” is religion. As seen in the......

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Title: European Integration
Approximate Word Count: 983
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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