Dead Men's Path

By Chinua Achebe, in this story we see another case of how tradition, different religions and different points of views gets everything into a mess. Honestly I believe that Mr.Obi was wrong when he mentioned the words "The whole purpose of our school,is to eradicate just such beliefs as that. Dead men do not require footpaths. The whole idea is just fantastic." I found it ignorant and almost childish that someone wants to destroy a tradition, I mean aren't traditions the foundation of a society? Isn't tradition what someone's great-grandparents used to do and how they raised our grandparents and so on until the day we were born? Besides Obi wanted to Christianize everything and everyone, stepping on top of everyone's beliefs without thinking about a solution for the problem, they could have both come to an agreement and not end up how everything turned out as the mess it did. Personally even if a cultural belief looks stupid infront of certain person or a different culture, it should be respected and show respect towards it. Old traditions have a special thing about them, a certain magic, mystic to a certain point and that is they should be valued and respected, since nowadays no one takes the time to find new ways to revive that special magic that our ancestor created.