SECOND RESPONSE

Barbarian or barbarism is epithet. Not even a nation calls itself barbarian. All nations denominate their enemies or other nations as barbarian. However in the history we see some nations (which are denominated as barbarian) established perfect military system or social system.In the world, there are lots of nations and millions of people.They speak different languages, they believe in different gods or they have different cultureres.These differences create a unity and it is our world.However people underestimate this unity and categorized people.In the text we see this categorization very openly. Las Casas and Sepulveda’s discussion about this distinction is a good example of this categorization. Las Casas says that all nations are mainly same and we can not discriminate people.Sepulveda’s ideas are much like racist.He sees indies as uneducated and uncivilized.However Casas says these epithets must anathematize.According to Casas, Indies are not uncivilized or uneducated. He thinks that every nation has its own culture and education style.He also insists that the nations which are not christians named as barbarian but he knows that it is nonsense. Sepulveda justifies Spanish and he says Spanish’ s attitudes towards indies are right because he thinks they should be educated.As a summary , Casas believes that there are different kind of people who believe in different religious,talk different languages and be educated by different cultures.However Sepulveda has certain prejudices about “Others”.He is not able to see the differences of people.He tries to put certain borders between nations and puts each of them on different steps. According to Sepulveda such nations like indies are at the bottom and they must be there always.They should be slaves of strongest one. This is their fate.