"A Programme for Comparative Ethnology" touches Bartolome de Las Casas' ideology about the human rights. Bartolome de Las Casas is questioning his country's and also other nations' attitude to oppressed and weak societies. In the years of 1550 and 1551, there is a great debate between de Las Casas and Sepulveda that is called the Vallodolid Debate.  The Debate concerns the treatment of the Natives of the New World. De Las Casas and Sepulveda represents two opposide side. De Las Casas argues that The Indians are free men in natural order that people gains it when they were born and also they deserved the same treatment as others. In contrast to De Las Casas, Sepulveda says that Indians are natural slaves that he is based his theory on Latin dialogue "Democrates Secundus". Democrates Secundus proves that there differences between. So, we can clearly say that it is written in a racist mood.

      The article also focuses on the meaning of "barbarism". De Las Casas says that barbarism is not only genetic element, but it is also psychological. In that sense, De Las Casas dismantles Aristotle's thesis in The Politics. He also states that Barbarism is a kind of metamorphoses. For instance, Hellenic races calls 'barbarian' to other races that are not among them. And the other example is that they also called 'barbarian to Egyptians although they are smart people just because of their being idolater. Nonethless, The Greeks and The Romans also called 'barbarians' who does not know Latin or Greek. Therefore, De Las Casas puts forward that we cannot classify people according to their race, their colour, their language or their belief.

    From my point of view, it is an argumentative subject who is barbarian, greedy people who kills the others for taking their wealth or ignorant but clean people ?

THE DEVASTATION OF THE INDIES: A BRIEF ACOOUNT ( Bartolome De Las Casas )

Bartolome de Las Casas, Spanish priest and writer, is criticizing his own nation and his own culture objectively in his article "The Devastation of The Indies: A brief Account". The article is about first colonial movement to Indies. The region was firstly settled by the Spaniards and Bartolome De Las Casas was among the people witnessed that colonial movement. In this article, Las Casas is harshly criticizing the Spanish tyranny to The Indies. He states that there were more than 12 million people killed and tortured bye the Spanish tyranny. When they settled the area, their main concern was not to live there. They went there because they wanted to benefit from the prosperity of the continent and took this wealth to their nation. When They came, the Indies welcomed them. These Indies were ignorant, uneducated people. But at the same time, they were very clean in their person. They did not know the concepts such as hatred, desire for worldy things, revenge, etc. Spaniards were blinded by the desire of worldly materials and they attacked them like a hungry lion. The Population of The island of Hispaniola where they firstly settled fell to 200 from 3 million. This article reminds me Herbert Spencer's  Social Darwinism theory that he claims that rich and powerful nations oppress the weak ones. According to this theory, There are two types of races, one is the strongest and the other one is th weakest. And the Strongest one always exploits the weakest one, as it happens in the animal kingdom. In that story, The strongest one is Spaniards, the weakest one is Indies.  I want to end my writing with Aristotle's word.
   "Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all"