The reader discovers a term invented and repeated by Pratt throughout the play, “contact zones”. She uses this term "to refer to the social spaces where cultures meet, clash and clash, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical power relations, such as colonialism, slavery, or their consequences as they are experienced in many parts of the world. the world today” (Pratt 584). Contact zones did not necessarily constitute a positive interaction because these social interactions generally emerged from ignorance and led to stubborn conflict. Dubois's The Negro in the United States and Griffith's The Birth of the Nation, as well as Pratt's Contact Zone Arts, correlate through Pratt's contact zone terminology, autoethnographic texts, and ethnographic texts. These texts are written from different perspectives but on the contradictory theme of oppression of cultures or misinformation. Many dilemmas have been introduced in the past, but none of them are correct on their own because they are bias. You have to integrate both perspectives of the story in order to get a real picture. Mary Louise Pratt explains in The Arts of the Contact Zone that leaders attempt to unify the world from the perspective of a person or group. She goes on to explain that Travel Writing was simply based on the European perspective of the rest of the world, and that they wanted to produce these essays under their own influences. One essay argues that travel writing “did not deal with Africa or South America; it produced places that could be considered barren, empty, undeveloped, inconceivable, in need of European influences and control, ready to serve European industrial, intellectual, and commercial interests” (Pratt 498). Europeans thought they had to civilize these places...... middle of paper ...... animal was better than being a slave; at least animals are incapable of feeling emotions. Pratt explains how student Manuel felt his opinion had no value; the world was shown only from the teacher's point of view. However, are teachers supposed to think it is their duty to “eliminate this kind of thing [discourse, parody, resistance, criticism] and unify the social world?” (509). Some people think that unifying all perspectives into one idea is the best way for a community to get along. For example, teachers have their own language in a classroom; the “student-teacher language”. This particular language “tends to be described almost entirely from the point of view of the teacher and teaching, not from the point of view of the students and the student” (508). If teachers don't recognize something, it doesn't exist in the student's world..