Arrivals, There Goes the Neighborhood

When I heard the title for this blog entry, I obviously thought about the situation between the Native Americans and the Europeans. I thought about how the Europeans thought it was ok to invade the Natives' property in an effort to do things like convert them to their religion and take over them in order to make money. Some of the Europeans sought to help the Natives and simply explore, not to destroy them and their land for their own egotistical reasons. In realizing that, I understood that some Europeans were there to help and some were there for other reasons. After understanding and realizing those things, two questions arose in my mind. At what point is it not ok to "invade" someone's space? At what point does it become too territorial and acquisitive to not allow others to join your community, or to disrespect them? It becomes wrong to invade someone's space, property, or "neighborhood" when the action of going there is brought on by something bad or harmful. Europeans like Christopher Columbus took over the Native People and treated them as if they weren't human beings. And on the contrary, it becomes too territorial to not accept someone when they have the intention of bringing something good, and not bringing upon harmful things. Those two questions can still be asked today and will be relevant in the future as well. The subject of invasion and being territorial has been proved timeless, I guess you could say it's a part of human nature.