There goes the Neighborhood

To put it bluntly, what happened to the Native Americans  when European settlers came could easily be classified as genocide. When the settlers and explorers came to the Americas the natives had no way of knowing what the people that they viewed to be god like would do them. The Europeans were so much more technologically advanced than the natives that they must have appeared intimidating with their giant ships and swords. In Columbus's journal it seems that the explorers appeared to be friendly to the natives because of the gifts they gave them. Even though the settlers were going onto lands that theoretically should have belonged to the natives, the natives generally didn't just attack them outright because of their morals and they might have been a bit fearful of the settlers. By the time that the natives saw how the settlers were extremely prejudiced and racist towards them they probably had a much different view of the settlers than when they first arrived. The settlers didn't do much to have a huge cause for concern, so the native most likely weren't to worried.

Chicago has some of the worlds most segregated neighborhoods. Unlike Whitney Young it is rare for two people of different race or culture to live in the same neighborhood. Humans tend to think of people like them superior to those that are different and thus, when people of different cultures are together  there can be problems. Fear of something different can cause contempt or a lack of trust between people. However it seems that the more that people are exposed to different cultures, the more open minded they are. People will always be mad at others for one reason or another but hopefully it is for a reason more justified than something people have no control over.