primal beings?

well in class we watched a video by a guy named Highwater, i remembered the name cause Dr. Berg kept on saying his name was Hightower but the video said Highwater and i remebered it do to the mistake.  But anyway In the video Highwater kept talking about thedifferences between the Native Americans and The Europeans, and well it was kinda interesting somewhat.  Seeing his views and how the time affected the video so much, because it was made in like the 80′s or something.  I kinda couldn’t see what he was trying to portray because he kept going to how the Native Americans were people who made their buildings to stay with nature and how the Europeans wanted to go above and beyond nature, and i was thinking about all the other examples which contradicted what he was saying.  Through out the video i was just thinking of ways to disprove it and i really didn’t learn much from it, and I’m actually disappointed that my mind was closed because I knew to much.  Like when Highwater showed the church and how it was going up toward the sky reaching to space going above the trees, when I saw how he was explaining it, i started thinking of how many buildings that i’ve seen that weren’t like that, that were european, for example mountainous forts in europe we not made to stick out but blend into the mountain so that any unsuspected enemies would be susprised attacked.  Also when he showed the adobe village and how he made exaples of how they were Native Americans thats made their buildings with the nature, but with that i started thinking of all the other native american cultures that didn’t do that, and made large buildings like the europeans, like the aztec and mayan temples.  I guess i should really have had a more open mind to what was trying to be said.

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