I thought this article called The Enlightened in Europe and the Americas, was very interesting. In the beginning of the article it talked about how we humans move fast and seek progress. But somewhere in our lives we start to think about this progress as a bad thing because we are unable to keep up with the new things that are happening. I think this is very true. I am sure as I get older I might be saying the same thing. As we get older we do some things as everyday things and are in our own comfort zone. This is not always a bad thing, but sometimes due to that comfort zone we sometimes stop keeping up with the world. This leads us into feeling not a part of something and makes us feel that the world around. Another thing the article talked about was that people hide behind culture or their community or religion and do some things that logically cannot be explained. For instance, in 2017, our new president Donald Trump has banned many Islamic countries to come to United States. He said that will reduce Islamic Terrorist attacks that have been happening because of people that follow a certain religion. That makes no sense to me because terrorists have no religion. Religion only spreads peace within people and communities. Lately, we had so many shootings that took place and kill and injured and that was because of a white person. I do not see these politicians say these attacks were by few Christian or Catholic terrorists. But no they will still blame other groups of people that have nothing to with these attacks. Rather standing by each other’s side, these politicians do exactly what the terrorists want. That we fight with each other rather than helping each other during bad times as human beings.

Simarjit Singh